2024-04-28 10:08:52
While dengue cases do not stop in Tucumán and the number of deaths continues to rise, the provincial government announced that vaccination will begin on Monday for all state personnel considered essential. The Minister of Health warned that the immunization process will be voluntary.
“We are going to start on Monday, probably in 107, with the staff who are most exposed. Then we will make a schedule that we will communicate. The idea is to start with security and education personnel in no more than seven days,” he explained. Luis Medina Ruizin charge of the health quarry.
Without providing too many details, the official who accompanied the governor Osvaldo Jaldo During the announcement, he also said that “in a very short time it is likely that we will be able to start with the rest of the population. You must wait three months to administer the second dose and complete the immunization. “It is stipulated to vaccinate people who are between 20 and 40 years old.”
Medina Ruiz also explained that “this vaccine, with two doses and 15 days later, protects against serious illness and hospitalization in 85% of cases. In other people, it attenuates symptoms.”
After commenting that “we are at a plateau of consultations for febrile symptoms, but it is still high, so it is very important that we continue to take care of ourselves,” the minister insisted that “we must work on the sterilization of mosquitoes, on and with vaccines. If we work with all the tools available, next year should be different.”
Finally, in addition to insisting that immunization for State personnel will be voluntary, Medina Ruiz recalled that “vaccines save lives and there are some people who still question this. Today we do not have poliomyelitis, smallpox, almost no one has hepatitis and pneumonia, diseases that were common a few decades ago. Argentina is a country that stands out in the world for the number of vaccines it has on the calendar. Although this vaccine is not mandatory, it is important to get vaccinated.”