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    Manzur: "Pneumonia is a leading cause of death for kids"
    Thus, the Minister of Health of the Nation advised the community to complete the vaccination schedule pneumococcal
    Saturday, 01.05.2013 | 19:45 pm 0 Comments

    Juan Manzur, Minister of Health of the Nation
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    Juan Manzur
    SALTA. - A year after the decision of the incorporation of the pneumococcal vaccine to the national immunization schedule, as the became free and compulsory for all children aged under two years, the Minister of Health of the Nation Juan Luis Manzur, urged people to supplement and strengthen immunization schemes to prevent serious diseases such as pneumonia and meningitis.
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    "A year that President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner decided to implement the strategy, but we are pleased with the covers over 90 percent in the first dose, in the provinces of Jujuy and Formosa, concerned about the low coverage we recorded in the second dose, necessary to ensure effective immunization, "said the minister.
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    Manzur said "pneumonia is one of the leading causes of hospitalization and death of children under one year, or even two, especially in winter."
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    Meanwhile, Carla Vizzotti, head of the National Program for Control of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (PRONACEI) national health portfolio, recalled the importance of "control vaccination books during the summer and use this time to approach and complete VACUNATORIOS two doses of pneumococcal vaccine, because that is the best way to protect their children and reduce the movement of this disease. "
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    In Argentina there are about 50,000 pneumonia a year, half of which are produced by the bacteria, and some 500 children die from this cause, according to the PRONACEI. Pneumococcus also causes around 1,750 of bacteremia and 200 meningitis in children under 5. Also, pneumococcal meningitis in children generate serious sequelae. Of all severely affected children, 40% suffer deafness, mental retardation, 17%, 11% and 14% paralysis seizures.
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    Reviewed by the health portfolio, the vice president of the Argentina Society of Pediatrics (SAP), Angela Gentile, considered "a major milestone" incorporating the pneumococcal vaccine to national vaccination schedule since-held - serves "to protect and reduce the number of children killed, detained or complications due to pneumonia and other invasive diseases such as meningitis or bacteremia. "
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    Regarding the low coverage, Gentile said that "the problem is multicausal", and stressed the need to continue working on different axes, "and the perception of disease with the community, that is, that people understand the importance is a vaccine to prevent certain diseases and health team training because often miss opportunities. This will make our children are protected, "he said.
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    The expert noted that a feature of this is that immunization "with 80 percent coverage and impact can be achieved because it gives protection flock, ie beyond protects the vaccinated because it eliminates porting" the Once called this vaccine as "very noble".
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    "This is a very expensive vaccine, which is given free of charge nationwide. The SAP advocates strongly for the schemes are completed in a timely manner, and that this immunization is much pediatric health impact, "she added. (
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