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Health professionals were in the Jorge Teixeira district, one of the three with the highest incidence of the disease, the others are Cidade Nova and Novo Aleixo
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A criminal group prevented the movement of health workers from the measles vaccination campaign in Jorge Teixeira district, Manaus, last night (18). Located in the eastern part of the Amazonian capital, the district is one of three with the highest incidence of the disease, with Cidade Nova and Novo Aleixo. The intensification plan against measles in Manaus began Monday (16)
According to the mayor, health professionals, accompanied by a TV reporting team, followed the course of visits to residents from the region when they were caught and arrested by criminals "affiliated with the phalanx of the trade that threatens to dominate the state."
"I appeal to the governor of the state: go with all that you could have as a police force, because we can never let Amazonas become the property of the traffickers," said the mayor from Manaus, Arthur Virgílio Neto.
According to the mayor, as of this Thursday (19), the passage through the residences will be carried out with the support of police units to ensure the safety of the 900 community health workers who are part of the plan. emergency vaccination. With household worker visits between 3pm and 8pm, including weekends, the action was scheduled to cover at least 95% of Manaus' population aged 6 months to 49 years old.
The Jorge Teixeira district recently presented 342 cases of measles, concentrating the highest rates of the disease in the city, followed by Cidade Nova, which totals 265 notifications, Novo Aleixo, with 179, according to the data of the city hall . In total, Manaus already has 2,660 notifications of the disease, of which 444 are confirmed cases, 119 have been excluded after investigation and 2,097 are awaiting laboratory results.
The Intensification Plan Against Measles in Manaus is applied because of the sudden spread of the disease. national territory, with homes in Roraima and Amazonas.
Agência Brasil contacted the Secretariat of Public Security of Amazonas, which, until the publication of this report, reports that the Ministry of Health reports 677 confirmed cases of the disease, transmitted from the same way as the flu by air. question, did not return.
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