Health: The nation left Santa Fe without meningococcal vaccines

The ministry of this province submitted the complaint to the Ministry of Health and the national government confirmed that it was only in February that the replacement would be standardized.

November 28, 2018

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The province of Santa Fe no longer has a meningococcal vaccine. The province's health minister, Andrea Uboldi, confirmed that there were no more doses and that there would not be any, at least until February.

"From now until February, there is no dose, children can not be vaccinated," said a provincial official at Rosarioplus.com, noting that this year already, because of problems with distribution also, she had ceased to be applied in children of 11 years old.

In the health portfolio of Santa Fe, they warned the National Health Secretariat of the opportune time to regularize the situation. He did it by a letter and the response received by the minister was a statement in which Nación provided that "the process of transfer of the necessary stock and completion of the replenishment operation of the strategy would take place on February 15, 2019 ". .

Meningococcal is a bacterium that causes serious diseases such as meningitis (inflammation of the membrane covering the brain) and sepsis (generalized infection), with fatal consequences or irreversible neurological sequelae (hearing loss, neurological impairment, amputations, etc. .). Children under one year old are the most vulnerable, while adolescents and adults can carry the germ and pbad it on to infants and young children at higher risk of falling ill.