Aguascalientes Vaccination A/H1N1

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The overall goal is to administer vaccines to 70 thousand in late March
Thursday 21/Ene/10 01:40 Carmen Lozano
Offered by the Institute of Health in Aguascalientes most flu vaccines
The most vulnerable population that is considered a priority is the health staff of first contact
The ISEA opens the third batch of vaccines against human influenza A/H1N1 and begins to manage health centers in the state. So far 14.570 doses have been administered and this new installment has more than 14,000 injections.
The most vulnerable sector of the ISEA considers it a priority to vaccinate when personal health is composed of first contact pregnant women, infants between 6 and 24 months, mothers and staff in charge of children under 6 months, daycare and everyone in between 2 and 64 years of age suffering from respiratory diseases, asthma, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, heart disease, diabetes, severe obesity or diseases affecting the immune system like HIV.
Anyway, from now on the vaccine will not be restricted only to the groups mentioned above. Any person coming to one of 19 health centers and state hospitals and the request will be given. The human influenza vaccine is free and only given to authorized health centers. At no time has liberalized its sale or intends to do.
The overall goal of the ISEA is to administer vaccines to 70 thousand late March with the aim of reducing cases of the virus in the state to become a seasonal illness simple fall and winter seasons.

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Have covered 14% of the total goal of vaccination against H1N1 virus

Thursday, 04/Feb/10 00:08 Reyna Mora
On March 31 deadline for using more than 200 thousand doses in the state
Apply the vaccine in malls and crowded places
At a press conference, the director of health services at the Health Institute of the State of Aguascalientes (ISEA), Leticia L?pez G?mez announced that it has been concerned 7 thousand doses of vaccine against human influenza A/H1N1 in the third consignment reached 14 thousand biological state, an increase of 50 percent. Despite this progress, the implementation rate of the overall goal is low.


The target population has been immunized, is 221 thousand people in the state, which has covered only 14 percent. Lopez Gomez acknowledged that will slow the implementation of the vaccine but said trust meet the target set for March 31 because that is about to begin the week of health, awaiting takeoff with vaccination against A / H1N1.


As a measure to move faster in implementing the vaccine biological approaches to crowded places like shopping malls. He said that the population objective remains the risk groups, pregnant women in any trimester of pregnancy, people with compromised immune systems, asthma, diabetes and obesity.


But he said that vaccination will be flexible, ie any person seeking the vaccine in the health centers will be provided without the need to present a medical certificate to substantiate be a risk group.


On the sale of H1N1 vaccine, pharmacies, Lopez Gomez said that so far have not received information from the Ministry of Health, through the Federal Commission on Prevention of Health Risks (COFEPRIS) around the specific date and the amount of vaccine that will be distributed in pharmacies.

Influenza Statistics

This morning the State Health Institute of Aguascalientes (ISEA) reported the death of two human influenza A/H1N1, leading to 58 deaths in the state since April 2009 that the epidemic began, to January 2010.


The report said one of the victims was a male person of 29 years of age residing in the capital city and date of death of Feb. 2 in the Third Millennium Hospital.


On the other death, ISEA provided no further information, saying that the deceased was treated in the state, but was a resident of Zacatecas. Differentially 53 deaths have occurred in persons from Aguascalientes and five residents of another state.


During the month of January showed 85 new cases of human influenza A/H1N1 in the three first three days of February are reported three more cases, totaling 711 thousand, since the disease appeared.

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Health Sector has implemented only 20 percent of influenza vaccine

Friday, 12/Feb/10 01:44 Carmen Lozano

The application deadline is March 31 with 21 thousand doses
Almost a year to untie the A/H1N1 influenza crisis in Mexico, the State Health Institute of Aguascalientes (ISEA) reports that in the state, has been implemented only 20 percent of the total planned. The agencies have been applying the vaccine are the ISEA and the ISSSTE. The overall goal to achieve for March 31 is 21 thousand doses applied in the state. But less than two months after the application deadline, between the two institutes have applied only slightly more than 48 thousand doses.


The ISEA has applied all his first three batches of vaccines, that is, 28 thousand doses. The fourth consignment of 12 thousand doses, received last week, has already begun to be implemented in health centers dependent on the ISEA. In addition, the health sector has installed new facilities where biological apply. These are the Bodega Aurrera supermarkets in the Mexican Thinkers fractionation of the capital and the towns of Rincon de Romos and Pabell?n de Arteaga. Also, most vaccines are being implemented in kindergartens in rural SEDESOL. However, the vaccine is not for sale at any pharmacy in the state. Estimates of the health sector would lead to vaccinate 20 percent of the million one hundred thousand inhabitants of the state.


As for confirmed cases of human influenza in the state have submitted 1.711 medical care. In recent weeks, have not significantly increased the incidence of diseases. However, Monday saw a further death in the state. The patient was admitted to the Hospital Hill since December 31 and suffered complications because they were overweight, said Dr. Francisco Marquez Diaz, infectious diseases and state commissions in the treatment of influenza.