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Starts in Oaxaca, the Indian national vaccination campaign against influenza (09:46 h)
Written by Salvador Garcia
Oaxaca de Juarez, 29 January. Federal Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos launched in the mountains north of Oaxaca national vaccination campaign in indigenous communities to prevent influenza H1N1.
The federal official who was received at the Benito Ju?rez International Airport in Santa Cruz Xoxocotlan by the owner of the Panamerican Health Organization, Martin Vasquez Villanueva went immediately to the traditional inn "The Little Flower", which is located in the La Merced market in the Historic Center of Oaxaca.
Here, also accompanied the official of the Commission, Javier Abreu S?nchez breakfast egg cheese sauce, pork with beef, beans and grass rabbits, water and chocolate pastries.
Cordova Villalobos had already begun to eat when an hour later came the Governor Ulises Ruiz to meet his guest and thus welcome.
At the moment they move to the northern highlands to start this national campaign.
Expansion of information (11:27 pm)
In a press release, the Commission states that in order to support vaccination against seasonal influenza AH1N1 and between sectors of the population considered vulnerable, the National Commission for Development of Indigenous Peoples purchased 300 thousand doses of vaccine, reported its director general, Xavier Abreu Sierra.
The vaccines will be applied during the winter to over 70 thousand girls, indigenous children and youth under the Program Indigenous School Hostels in 21 states.
The owner of the CDI emphasized that even though children and youth have been identified as a risk group, avoid discriminatory practices, so that doses available will be used for members of the indigenous communities surrounding the vaccination 160 points defined for this purpose and for public servants who serve those communities.
Abreu Sierra stressed that this special program of immunization will be collaboration and coordination of the health institutions of the federal and state governments combine their efforts to ensure the health of indigenous peoples and communities and prevent mortality from these diseases can sualta exacerbated given permanent vulnerability and exposure to various risk factors