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Vaccination campaign will start in Nicaragua
Health - Thursday, April 8 (17:45 hrs.)
It will be 19 to April 26
Doses of polio will, pentavalent, measles, rubella and tetanus
The online Financial
Managua, April 8 .- The Ministry of Health of Nicaragua will begin on April 19 a vaccination campaign to immunize 1.4 million children and pregnant women include dose human flu, said an official source.
The general director of Epidemiological Surveillance of the portfolio of Health, Edmundo Sanchez, told reporters that apply antiparasitic 1.4 million children and 746 thousand doses of vitamin A to protect minors.
The conference will be held from 19 to 26 April with polio vaccine, pentavalent, measles, rubella and tetanus toxoid to all children under five years.
Also be entered in the Civil Registration of Persons to children who have no documents.
The health brigades will visit the remote areas throughout the week and then attend the municipalities.
About 400 thousand doses of vaccine against the H1N1 virus will be applied to different priority sectors such as chronically ill, health personnel, teachers and policemen, among others. (With information from Notimex / JJJ)