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According to the record, the victim, who had neither the name nor the bad disclosed, was diagnosed in November of this year and received treatment. There was no death registration.
However, in May, a girl of only 1 year and 6 months died at the São Paulo Hospital with symptoms after two days in the intensive care unit.
She would have been isolated when the results of the blood test would have revealed suspicions and received transfusions, but would have attested to brain death later.
In total, only 52 cases of meningitis were confirmed by the municipality in 2018, of which 11 were bacterial – the last one.
In Search of the Vaccine
Despite the new report, the demand for meningitis C vaccine in health posts in Ribeirão has become a problem. The type of disease is the most common and the most unique with vaccination provided by the public network.
Kélen de Oliveira went to seven UBDS (basic district health offices) on Tuesday (11) to vaccinate her only five-month-old daughter. The lot found in the district of São José was however the last. "The nurse there said that there were only four more vaccines," he says.
An EPTV team went on the scene a few hours later and discovered: the doses were over, with no possibility of replacement. In other units, officials have even asked for at least 15 days waiting until the next shipment arrives.
Other side
By a note, the municipality of Ribeirão Preto indicated that it did not receive the necessary amount of vaccine and that its delivery was the responsibility of the Ministry of Health.
The secretary of state confirmed the problem in Brasilia, as only half of the doses would arrive.
The Ministry of Health has already started distributing the December vaccines throughout the country and pointed out that the problem was the laboratory, which would be the only one in the world to manufacture the vaccine and postpone it. production. With EPTV.
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A 1 year old baby dies of meningitis in Ribeirão Preto
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