09/24/2022
NATIONAL VACCINATION CAMPAIGN RETURN
Tomás Baliña: “Vaccination is a very effective and very safe strategy”
Tomas Baliña, Director of Community Health, told La Voz de Tandil the details of what will be the vaccination campaign for children between the ages of 1 and 4 which will start on 1 October and will run until 13 November. He also referred to the search for professionals for Primary Care Centers.
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Baliña said it is “a national campaign against measles, rubella, mumps and polio, starting on October 1 and running until November 13. Try to apply them to all children between 13 months and 4 years, 11 months and 29 days. “
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Vaccines can be accessed at all regular vaccination centers operating in the Tandil Health System, Community Care Centers and the Central Vaccination Center located in Rodríguez and Maipú. “The main strategy will be to go directly to the crèches and crèches, where we will go to attend with the health workers. We are already in communication with everyone to be able to carry out the campaign. It is an extraordinary event that repeats itself every 4 years and is given by a recommendation from the Pan-American Health Organization and is independent of the history of whether or not to have the complete vaccination plan “.
The polio vaccine “there are two and they are very effective, one is Sabin and now it has stopped being applied in this way and has been injectable”
Regarding the triple viral, the Director of Community Health specified “measles and rubella for several years now that we have no indigenous cases in our country. There have been imported cases and during the World Cup where there is a lot of movement of people in the same place , they tend to reproduce some imported cases, this year we have had imported cases or due to an imported case and that is why it was decided to strengthen vaccination because if the virus enters there will be no regrowth.
“Vaccination is a really effective and very safe strategy, even if there have not been cases for a long time, we try to have the maximum coverage possible. We have been 2 years in which the application of calendar vaccines has been stopped, which is this campaign is more justifiable and that is why we recommend the application from Salute “, he remarked.
In the vaccination compliance levels of the calendar, “there has been a decline in the pandemic. Fortunately, the Argentine population accepts vaccination very well and we have good coverage rates,” he said.
PRIMARY ASSISTANCE CENTERS
In recent times, there has been a decline in the presence of health workers in primary care centers. In this regard, Baliña clarified that “in all the Centers we pay attention to the various disciplines. In some we are trying to increase the supply available, for example San Cayetano, Villa Italia, where another doctor would be needed. This is why we are looking for it. the hiring of professionals is complex, but we hope to be able to fill the vacant positions “.
And he clarified that it is complex “because there are not many doctors with a specialization in family medicine, we believe that these types of professionals have a more complete vision and that is what we need in primary care spaces”.
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