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Implementation begins in the second half, MARCH
Influenza A?H1N1 arrives 30 thousand doses of vaccine
Publication Date: Thursday, 04 of Marzo of 2010
The item arrived yesterday to the province and is intended for health personnel and pregnant women. The Nation will provide more units during the coming weeks. Hospital managers began to be trained in the inoculation of the disease that last year became pandemic.
The first round of vaccinations will be for health staff at risk
The first doses of vaccine against H1N1 Influenza A Corrientes arrived yesterday but the application just start in the second half of March. The initial line consists of 29,960 units will be earmarked for health personnel who serves in the areas of greatest risk to pregnant women.
Meanwhile, directors of hospitals began to be trained on the implementation of the vaccine and its risks under the control plan launched by the Government of the Nation against the disease that was declared last year by the Organization pandemic World Health Organization. The Ministry of Health of the province said that in the coming weeks they will be more doses than for other social groups considered at risk.
The arrival of the first batch of the vaccine was confirmed to The Coast by the head of the immunization program of the provincial health portfolio, Gustavo Gonzalez, who reported that they reached almost 30 thousand units of monovalent type. "The doses that are being distributed throughout the country have two varieties: the monovalent immunizes only against influenza A H1N1 and the trivalent, which inoculates the variety and seasonal strain," said the official.
The start date for the application of vaccines is still uncertain but it is only since the second half of March. "On the tentative agenda for presentation to Combat Influenza A H1N1 in Corrientes is on March 16, but there can be changes," Gonzalez advanced.
The first phase of the program will inoculate the staff in the health area which is most at risk, as those who have direct contact with patients and laboratory workers who handle secretions. Pregnant women will be among the first to be vaccinated.
For the provincial official, the nearly 30 thousand doses will be sufficient to immunize first risk groups across the province. The vaccines will be distributed in hospitals serving the greater masses of patients, as the hospital school.
To this end, yesterday began to be trained hospital directors. The doctors are informed about the vaccine characteristics, their risk of application and at risk groups.
In the coming weeks will continue getting more doses of the vaccine but do not know how much it is for the province. The next groups will immunize children, the elderly and postpartum women.
Implementation begins in the second half, MARCH
Influenza A?H1N1 arrives 30 thousand doses of vaccine
Publication Date: Thursday, 04 of Marzo of 2010
The item arrived yesterday to the province and is intended for health personnel and pregnant women. The Nation will provide more units during the coming weeks. Hospital managers began to be trained in the inoculation of the disease that last year became pandemic.
The first round of vaccinations will be for health staff at risk
The first doses of vaccine against H1N1 Influenza A Corrientes arrived yesterday but the application just start in the second half of March. The initial line consists of 29,960 units will be earmarked for health personnel who serves in the areas of greatest risk to pregnant women.
Meanwhile, directors of hospitals began to be trained on the implementation of the vaccine and its risks under the control plan launched by the Government of the Nation against the disease that was declared last year by the Organization pandemic World Health Organization. The Ministry of Health of the province said that in the coming weeks they will be more doses than for other social groups considered at risk.
The arrival of the first batch of the vaccine was confirmed to The Coast by the head of the immunization program of the provincial health portfolio, Gustavo Gonzalez, who reported that they reached almost 30 thousand units of monovalent type. "The doses that are being distributed throughout the country have two varieties: the monovalent immunizes only against influenza A H1N1 and the trivalent, which inoculates the variety and seasonal strain," said the official.
The start date for the application of vaccines is still uncertain but it is only since the second half of March. "On the tentative agenda for presentation to Combat Influenza A H1N1 in Corrientes is on March 16, but there can be changes," Gonzalez advanced.
The first phase of the program will inoculate the staff in the health area which is most at risk, as those who have direct contact with patients and laboratory workers who handle secretions. Pregnant women will be among the first to be vaccinated.
For the provincial official, the nearly 30 thousand doses will be sufficient to immunize first risk groups across the province. The vaccines will be distributed in hospitals serving the greater masses of patients, as the hospital school.
To this end, yesterday began to be trained hospital directors. The doctors are informed about the vaccine characteristics, their risk of application and at risk groups.
In the coming weeks will continue getting more doses of the vaccine but do not know how much it is for the province. The next groups will immunize children, the elderly and postpartum women.