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The integrated public health system confirmed that next week would arrive at Tandil the missing doses of the meningitis vaccine listed in the official calendar to complete the corresponding shipment for the month.
The information was confirmed by the authorities of the 8th Health Region, under the authority of the Ministry of Health of the province of Buenos Aires, a day after that newspaper reflected the local situation and indicated that all vaccines would arrive and Wednesdays will be available for your retirement.
As reported in these pages on Monday, the integrated health system has received the vaccines and completed Wednesday distribution at health centers and at the vaccinator working at the children's hospital "Dr. Debilio Blanco Villegas".
However, as the amount is less than that required for the target population, the demand coverage is therefore based on the available stock.
For Tandil, according to the target population survey, approximately 700 doses are estimated, although delivery is generally inferior (between 400 and 600). Indeed, next week he will try to solve this problem by delivering the missing units. "The problem is with this particular vaccine, not that it was not acquired, but that they fail to deliver the quantity purchased," said the director of Community Health. The eco of TandilMiriam Darthazu.
The reasons
Adolfo Rubinstein, secretary of the government of the nation's health, assured a few days ago that "all vaccines are guaranteed" and that there are "specific problems related to the global supply of vaccines Meningococcus, which is delaying its delivery and which we hope will begin to be solved in the coming weeks. "
The government's Ministry of Health has purchased all Menveo doses needed to cover the target population. "600,000 doses have been delivered during the first half, 300,000 are being dispensed and another 300,000 in the next quarter, and we are awaiting the remaining delivery from the supplier," said the head of the national agency.
The meningococcal vaccine was included in the national immunization schedule in 2017, free and compulsory at the age of 3, 5 and 15 months and with a single reinforcement dose at 11 years.
That supply is guaranteed
However, the counselor of the civic unit, Silvia Nosei, warned of this particular situation and demanded that the distribution and the application of the meningitis vaccine be guaranteed in order to avoid that, in Absence, "parents stop vaccinating their children".
"It is serious to have a population that can not be assured of the vaccine at the right time," he warned.
In his defense, he referred a draft resolution he had tabled in October last year, referring to the absence of meningococcal vaccine. In a scenario similar to the one that currently exists, the court has asked the executive department to arbitrate ways to ensure the application of these doses and to ensure that the disease does not spread.
He regretted that the initiative was unsuccessful because, at the time of starting his treatment in the Deliberative Health Council of the Deliberative Council, vaccines were available, but he asked that the age group he points to be providing.
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