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Santo Domingo, June 29 (EFE) .- The Ministry of Public Health, through the Expanded Program on Immunization (IAP), today called on 15% of the population to complete immunization cycles, because only this "The coverage of vaccines in a general sense remains above 85 percent, vaccinators in the country need to worry about the 15 percent of the population who left," says Zacarías Garib, director PAI
The specialist explains that people often go to vaccination centers with their children, they apply the first vaccine and the second dose of vaccines, but they do not come back any more and therefore they do not complete the diet
This situation, said the specialist in a press release, helps to leave them unprotected against various diseases such as the case of whooping cough that requires all doses.
He said that, for example, during in the first year three doses of Pentavalent vaccine containing five vaccines, including whooping cough and at four years, the fifth booster should be applied.
Garib said that people have the full right to request timely information in vaccination centers about the existence of vaccines and how they work, but they should not stop because Is the responsibility of the authorities guarantee the right to health. EFE
