Immunization coverage is below target in Jundiaí

Unlike many Brazilian municipalities with low immunization coverage against polio and other diseases, Jundiaí has ​​good immunization coverage. According to a survey of Epidemiological Surveillance, the vaccine with the lowest index in the city is triple viral (measles-mumps-rubella), with coverage of 88% until May of this year. Last year it was 86.25%. The target recommended by the Ministry of Health is 95% for all vaccines. The federal government has mapped 312 cities in the country that have not vaccinated 50% of children against polio in 2017. In Jundiaí, last year, polio coverage was 97%. This year, until May, the rate is 95.52%, ie within the target, but slightly lower than that of 2017.

According to surveillance, the triple vaccine requires two doses for vaccination (at 12 months and 15 months) and polio are three doses less than one year, with a booster at 15 months and at 4 years. The monitoring emphasizes that she maintains a special regime for the supply of vaccines against oral polio, so that even with the reduction of the distribution by the Ministry and the State Secretariat, it serves the population in all basic health units. Brazil has not reported cases of poliomyelitis since 1989. Measles and rubella are clbadified as exanthematous diseases (infectious diseases with skin manifestations) and there have been no confirmed cases in the city. since 2016.

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The Infectious Diseases of the University Hospital and Professor at the Jundiaí School of Medicine, Saulo Pbados, reinforces the importance of the mbad population in health facilities, to verify the immunization situation, from the pregnant mother to the fourth generation. He believes that the weakness of demand in the country is motivated by the forgetfulness of those diseases that, until then, were under control, which endangers the health of unvaccinated people. "It is important to specify that the vaccines are of good quality and that any health establishment is likely to update the schedule of vaccination.