From the Buenos Aires Ministry of Health They expressed concern about the low accession to the campaign against measles and aimed against the national government for the little visibility and dissemination of the campaigns that are carried out in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA) For a month.
The Undersecretary of Strategic Planning of the Buenos Aires Ministry of Health Leticia Cerianiin dialogue with Buenos Aires/12He evaluated the vaccination campaign that takes place in the province of Buenos Aires against measles and pointed out that “it is wrong” because “only 10 percent of the target population approached the vaccination centers.”
In this sense, the official questioned the national authorities about her little collaboration in the campaign. “The national government does is provide vaccines, like all calendar, but no more than that,” he said.
“We ask two things in particular for this campaign, one is that it is not limited only to AMBA. Today the vaccination campaign is only in the metropolitan area and that today is a problem because we already have a case in San Luis.” According to Ceriani, 15 cases were confirmed in the province of Buenos Aires, 10 cases in the City of Buenos Aires and one in Puntana province.
Measles is an “extremely contagious” disease so limiting the campaign only to AMBA “is a wrong decision,” he said. “It is inexplicable for anyone who has read some public health to think that an outbreak will be circumscribed to the Federal Capital and the province of Buenos Aires, for that reason we had been asking that the campaign be, as another time, national.”
On the other hand, he pointed out two other problems that the national government does not meet; the “limited amount of dose” and the low investment in advertising guideline. “We need investment in pattern,” he claimed.
“When vaccines are scarce, and we live this last year, vaccination discourages, this lack of rectory is added to this and to lead a true national diffusion campaign,” he warned.
From the province of Buenos Aires, the campaign “everything that can be” is disseminated and it is tried to “take the vaccines to the territory, and this we work hard with the municipalities” to bring the doses to families, “but in a province as large as the province of Buenos Aires to reach all houses it is practically impossible”.
“We have nurses and nurses who do territorial operations every day, but it has a scope that is limited. We need some sensitivity on the part of the population regarding the risk of this disease,” he said.
Regarding the low vaccination coverage, Ceriani explained that for a few years he has been on low, as in other countries of the world. “There are places where vaccination coverage is much lower than in our country, and that makes diseases that we thought eradicated appear again.”
Measles in children under 5 is a disease that can be serious, can be deadly, explained the official, who added that it is “a highly contagious and greatly spreading disease.”
The extra dose against measles applies to children between 6 months and 5 years old in the municipalities that make up the metropolitan area. It is a reinforcement vaccine, so it must be given independently of calendar vaccines that the boy or girl has already received. The campaign aims to interrupt the transmission chain, protect the greatest risk groups and strengthen collective immunity.
The reinforcement dose is free and is applied in all vaccinations in the province of Buenos Aires and to access its application, no medical order is necessary, only the sanitary notebook or vaccination card.
The official also recalled that the second stage of the Anti -shed Campaign Destined to pregnant people, in any quarter, puerperas people in the 10 days after childbirth, preferably before the graduation of motherhood, boys and girls between 6 months and 2 years old, people aged 2 to 64 with risk factors and strategic personnel.
These groups are added to health personnel and over 65, which are already vaccinating.
