They question the lack of vaccine against hepatitis B in Tamaulipas hospitals

By Lupita Álvarez

Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas .- For two years, hospitals in Tamaulipas continue to lack the vaccine against hepatitis B, something very serious because it increases the chances that children contract the disease, warned Marte Alejandro Ruiz Nava . [19659002] The local council counselor said that he did not know why the vaccine does not reach hospitals of the state, even though immunological immunization should be given to children from the first weeks after birth.

"It's a problem because this vaccine is at birth, in the first few weeks, and in Tamaulipas we have not had it for a long time.I do not know why it does not come to our hospitals, but we run the serious risk that babies can acquire this type of disease. "

Ruiz Nava said that lack of hepatitis B vaccine is not the only problem they face in the hospital, but also lack of drugs and staff to serve the population at the General Hospital and the Civil Hospital of Ciudad Victoria.

"From the beginning of our administration, we denounced that in the health centers they had drugs or doctors.They only play to pretend that they are treating the patients and that the Ministry of Health should take action on this, "he said.

According to recent statements of the Under-Secretary of State for Health, Alejandro García Barrientos dose of vaccine against hepatitis B, which would add to the 20,000 that correspond to a first shipment.