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Delay in vaccination program may have contributed to A/H1N1 flu spread in Venezuela

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CARACAS - The sprout of flu AH1N1, which leaves two deaths and 415 cases confirmed in Venezuela, reveals the inefficiency of the authorities in the handling of the illness, affirmed today the investigator of sanitary topics Jes?s D?as Polanco. ? There was a delay in the beginning of the vaccination, of six months. There there is the first problem and the groups capable of being infected have exploited and they are going to keep on exploiting ?, made sure Notimex the coordinator of the Venezuelan Observatory of Health (OVS) .El sociologist, with speciality in Sociology of the Medical Education and Political of Health, specified that the authorities ? said that the vaccination was beginning in January and the vaccines came in June ? of 2010, after the epidemic that left more than 130 deaths in 2009. The teacher of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) added that ? it seems to be that sufficient doses were not brought, there is population who is not going to be protected ?, in allusion to protests for the depletion of vaccines last week in the Andean state T?chira.

? There is a right that has been violated openly, the right to the health of the people and also one lies because there was delay in the vaccination ?, mentioned also investigator of the Center of Studies of the Development (CENDES) .Este on Monday the minister of Health, Eugenia Sader, updated in 415 the number of cases of the virus AH1N1 in the country and added that approximately three millions of persons have been vaccinated in the year 2011. He added that the incidence of the illness is minimal. Last Sunday, the president Hugo Ch?vez pointed out that ? there are no serious patients ? and made sure that ? the daily increase was 48 %, but the number has diminished 35 % ?. The authorities make sure that they are provided with the necessary vaccines and that the same ones are not needed for all the persons, but for children, major of 60 years, and harmed that they remain in the refuges after the strong rains of ends of 2010. ? There is a very small percentage that can do reaction to the vaccine, the criteria for the immunization are not from Venezuela, they are of the World Organization of the Health ?, pointed the minister Sader. D?az Polanco indicated that the new sprout of the illness ? speaks much about the situation of vaccination of the country that is serious ?. ? For 2008,
the coverage of the vaccination of the polio was 22 % of population, against 90 % of previous years ?, it said and questioned the "difference" of the official numbers on the matter. ? The numbers are disasters, there is a part probably that is to conceal but there is another part that is an inefficiency, they do not know how to do the things ?, pronounced himself the investigator.

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Re: Delay in vaccination program may have contributed to A/H1N1 flu spread in Venezuela

Venezuela: H1N1 Cases on the Rise

Venezuelans are facing another vulnerable situation. This time it is the H1N1 virus, a flu pandemic that started in the middle of March 2011, according to the Ministry of Health on their official webpage [es]. Besides this information, there is another version that comes from the Red de Sociedades Cient?ficas y M?dicas de Venezuela [Medical and Scientific Societies Network of Venezuela] which informs [es] that the first cases of H1N1 developed in the beginning of February in the Guarico state.

H1N1 has spread rapidly to some other states in the country, increasing from 12 [es] to 342 [es] cases and 4 deaths in less than a month.

Marcos D?az Orellana, the governor of the sate of Merida [es], suspended classes in the University of Los Andes as part of a preventive measure.

The instructions regarding vaccination, provided by Minister of Health Eugenia Sader, are clear [es] enough:

En cuanto a la vacunaci?n, advirti? que s?lo est? indicada la vacuna en ni?os y ni?as de seis meses, adultos y adultas mayores de 60 a?os, personas con el sistema inmunol?gico comprometido (VIH/SIDA, c?ncer, diabetes, hipertensi?n o problemas respiratorios) y mujeres embarazadas, ?de resto no hay indicaci?n de vacuna a la poblaci?n en general?.

Regarding vaccinations, she indicated they are just allowed for six-month old babies, adults older than sixty, people with a weakened immune system (HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes, hypertension or respiratory problems) and pregnant women. ?There is no order to vaccinate the rest of the population?.


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http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/03/31/venezuela-h1n1-cases-on-the-rise/
 
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