Representatives of United Physicians of Venezuela (MUV), Chapter Guárico, assured that the shortage of vaccines for the child population is worrisome, since it increases the risk of infection of diseases that were eradicated from the country several decades ago and currently, they rebound in statistics.
Carmen Cecilia Gómez, a pediatrician and member of MUV in the entity, told Radio Fe y Alegría News That this deficit is due to the fact that the vaccines in the country are donated by the Pan American Health Organization to the countries of Latin America, which includes Venezuela, which only receive a surplus for a small percentage of the population.
“This is serious, because when they enter the purchase period and vaccine negotiations, if the lot of vaccines we had, there will be a period of scarcity in some. Among those vaccines, the triple viral could be, which contains the measles vaccine, and as we have seen throughout the year, there has been an increase in this pathology from the United States to the rest of South America,” the specialist explained.
In this sense, Gomez said that there is another vaccine deficit that does not reach the service and health centers modules that are those of Rotavirus and Pneumococcus, which were formerly placed within the immunization scheme at the national level, but currently they no longer do.
“In this period of beginning of rainfall it is important, because not having this vaccination, which we have not been placed for ten years, we will have an important increase in vomiting and diarrhea diseases, since rotavirus is the one that causes 90 % of this pathology. Also an increase in diseases such as complicated pneumonia and meningitis,” he added.
He explained that at the beginning of the year, mothers go to the outpatients to vaccinate their children and did not get the BCG because this vaccine enters that period of negotiation made by the Venezuelan State with the organizations that dispatch them.
“There are going to be months in the year in which some vaccine is missing that later compensates. But it is important that the country and the institutions that are in charge of this, such as the Ministry for Health, put effort in the purchase of vaccines and complete the vaccination scheme that is established by the World Health Organization and by UNICEF. It is a more complete scheme because prevention is much cheaper than the healing,” said the representative of the United States. Venezuela.
Vaccines that do not enter the scheme
Carmen Cecilia Gómez commented that the hepatitis A vaccine has never been in the scheme and that has caused the population within the population during the year.
“At least in San Juan de los Morros, two or three times a year there is an epidemic of hepatitis A being this a disease that is spread by dirty hands. With eating a hot dog on the street, it can be infected and it is a disease that can cause a convalescence of up to two months or more,” he added.
According to Gomez, vaccination is not only aimed at children, but also adults and some people with base diseases. Therefore, it is important that the population has access to these immunization campaigns.
“Vaccines are the only tool we have worldwide to prevent certain pathologies that in previous times, since they did not exist, caused a high mortality incidence and this is what has prevented this mortality from decreasing worldwide already worldwide,” he said.
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