Guanajuato applies more than 100,000 vaccines in 2018

More than 100,000 vaccines were used this year to protect the entire population of Guanajuato, said Health Secretary Daniel Díaz Martínez. The state of Guanajuato has one of the most comprehensive immunization programs in the country

The success of the vaccination program explains that it has managed to maintain eradication, elimination and control of preventable diseases. the vaccination; this is the case of hepatitis B, which is controlled by vaccination.

The more than 100,000 doses were applied to children under one year for example the effectiveness of vaccination. anti-hepatitis vaccine "B" is 95 percent, from its first dose of application and immunity that this first dose generates, is enhanced with the second and third doses, reaching intact protection up to 20 years against infections Hepatitis B.

Vaccination is considered one of the main and most effective strategies of public health, which depends on the production and adequate and timely evaluation of the vaccines that are administered, in order to provide the expected protection in the target populations.

The Ministry of Health of Guanajuato, although it applies vaccines all year round, carries out the National Weeks of Health with three editions. it is by year

In this way, to safeguard the health of the Guanajuato people, each edition includes about 1 million 700,000 shares; between the application of biological and other activities throughout the health sector.

In addition, modules of popular insurance, child and adolescent care, Vaccination Health Promotion, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Chronic Degenerative Disease Detection are installed at the level of # 39; State.