Yucatan Vaccination A/H1N1

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You are now ready "
In a week will be the second batch of vaccines

28/11/2009

Miguel Betancourt Cravioto, Director of Prevention and Health Protection in the State, said the health sector of Yucatan "is ready" to cover the first phase of vaccination against influenza A H1N1, for which sufficient material is available.

This stage corresponds to the first batch of vaccines that receives Yucatan, which is actually 23.500, not 7.500 as published yesterday. The latter figure is only receiving health services.

The Institute of Security and Social Services for State Workers (ISSSTE) has nine thousand doses, and the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS), with seven thousand.

The second batch will be received on December 7.

Yesterday the first doses were applied, which are aimed at medical and nursing staff as well as women who have more than three months pregnant.

Cano Guadalupe Pech Landy became the first woman pregnant which was applied biology. It was followed by nurses and doctors.

Dr. Betancourt stressed that this first batch is allocated to staff who have direct contact with patients.

With the second batch will immunize children under five years old, caregivers for children and elderly people.

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Comes second batch of influenza vaccines AH1N1 Yucatan
Merida, Yucatan
December 18, 2009
Multimedia American News Agency

The Ministry of Health of Yucat?n (SSY) on Friday received the second batch of vaccines against influenza A H1N1, which was implemented starting this Thursday between minor, staff working in child care, elderly people or chronically ill. The director of Prevention and Health Protection of the unit, Miguel Betancourt Cravioto, explained that in this second dispatch received a total of 15 thousand doses of the biological, to be distributed from this Saturday between the three health districts with which account state.
"This way we will open five vaccination priority groups, as is the case of caregivers of children under six months, and staff working in child care, Child Development Center (Cendis) and pre-schools," he added.
Also covered abounded, children between six and 23 months, plus two years older infants and adults suffering from chronic lung disease, morbid obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, severe neuromuscular diseases and even immunocompromised. The official said that vaccination will also be among the patients of hostels and nursing homes, exclusively, while also continue the full implementation of the biological health personnel and pregnant women who are in the second or third trimester.
According to data from the SSY, the second batch of the vaccine thousand 500 bottles of 10 doses each, whose production was conducted in the Sanofi-Pasteur. Betancourt Cravioto recalled that on 26 November, the state agency received the first shipment of biological with a total of seven thousand 500 doses. Finally, said that with the doses to be received in January and February next be attended to patients with chronic and degenerative problems, ie diabetes, hypertension, obese and people with impaired immunity.