Apply first H1N1 vaccines
The first doses were applied to women six to nine months pregnant, doctors and nurses.
Posted: Sunday 29 November 2009 | 05:02 hrs.
By: John Alexander Jr.
Villahermosa, Tabasco
Yesterday began the first phase of the statewide campaign of vaccination against influenza A H1N1, whose first 11 thousand 300 women dose apply six to nine months of pregnancy, as well as staff of the 17 health districts who work in therapy intensive hospital and other hospital facilities.
The first injection was applied in a muscle (arm), the Hospital of Women, Mrs. Maria Ruiz Torres, from the settlement Rio Tinto, the third section, the municipality of Centro.
In this regard, the health secretary, Luis Felipe Zapata Graham mentioned that the state will match 162 thousand 588 doses, which have already received the first batch with vaccines, which are protected and will be freely distributed and applied only by the Ministry of Health. "They are on sale and only provides dependency."
He disclosed that during the second stage which commences on December 7 -, 850 five thousand will be injected vaccines, will be addressed to women with pregnancies of three to six months and patients with obesity, lupus, kidney failure , asthma, diabetes, heart disease and other illnesses that place them at risk.
He recalled that the latest report says Tabasco thousand have registered 80 cases of infection, which is in the second to last in deaths in the country. However, he added, "you can not drop our guard, and we can not trust."
He explained that these doses are not for all people, because they can not be applied to those allergic to the properties contained in the egg.
The event was also attended by Chief of Preventive Medicine, Rigoberto Dzul Cardena, and representatives of the Regional Hospital Pemex, IMSS, ISSSTE and isSet.
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