Vaccination against influenza H1N1 began Monday

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Vaccination against influenza H1N1 began Monday
Fri, March 12, 2010 10:42

Tania Santor
The national vaccination campaign to prevent the flu virus H1N1 was opened on Monday, 08. The city of Santa Izabel do Oeste 3472 will receive doses of vaccine in a total of 101,551 distributed throughout southwestern state. The groups considered most at risk will have priority at the time of distribution of the vaccine, but the health department confirmed that there will be leftover doses to the general population. "We can not get more doses as in vaccination policy, there are few available doses will thus be immunized only groups at risk," said the nurse Mariza Bueno.
The vaccination campaign ends on May 21 and aims to immunize 80% of the population that is part of the risk group to prevent a pandemic such as occurred last year that killed thousands of people around the world.

The time for vaccination is the same service the Municipal Health Center, except in the 3rd stage of the leaves 05 to 23 April where the vaccines will be those 20 to 29 years where immunization will be held until 19:00 hours.


Step 1 vaccination - from September 08th through 19th:
- Workers of the network of care providers and professionals involved in responding to pandemic. "The group includes cleaning staff, receptionists and ambulance drivers, doctors and nurses as well as laboratory workers and field investigation. (as agents of surveillance) "

2nd round of vaccination - from March 22 to 02 abril
- Pregnant women in any period of gestation
- Children from 06 months to 1 year 11 months and 29 days
- Group of people with chronic diseases, except the elderly to be vaccinated later.
* Patients with high obesity (grade 3)
* Individuals with chronic respiratory disease since childhood (Cystic Fibrosis, pulmonary dysplasia).
* Individuals with asthma and severe forms.
* Individuals with neuromuscular disease with impaired lung function.
* Patients with immunosuppression by use of med ication or related chronic diseases.
* Patients with diabetes.
* Patients with COPD and other chronic respiratory diseases with chronic respiratory failure, and tuberculosis sequelae.
* Patients with liver disease: biliary atresia, cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis, with abnormal liver function and / or antiretroviral therapy.
* Patients with chronic kidney disease, especially patients on dialysis.
* Patients with chronic hematologic, Hemonoglobinopatias.
* Patients with therapy continues requested in those aged less than or equal to 18 years. (Eg rheumatic autoimmune disease Kaeasaki)
* Patients with clinical syndrome of heart failure.
* Patients with structural heart disease with hemodynamic and clinical outcome:
- Pulmonary artery
- Valvopathies
- Ischemic heart disease with ventricular dysfunction
- Hypertensive heart disease with ventricular dysfunction
- Acyanotic
- Cardiomyopathies (dilated hispertr?fica, or restrictive).
- Pericardial

Step 3 of vaccination - from 05 to 23 April
- Population of healthy adults 20 to 29 years
- Pregnant women in any period of gestation

Step 4 of vaccination - from April 24 to May 7
- Elderly people over 60 with chronic
ATTENTION: Elderly will be vaccinated during the annual campaign of immunization against common flu. Those who have chronic diseases take two vaccines.
- Pregnant women in any period of gestation

5th steps 10 through May 21
- Population of healthy adults 30 to 39 years
- Pregnant women in any period of gestation

 

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Re: Vaccination against influenza H1N1 began Monday

Sao Paulo - The principal societies of medical specialties defend which chronic patients, like diabetics and serious asthmatics, if they vaccinate from today against the pig flu like the form of preventing severe pictures in a second eventual wave of the disease in this year. Up to Friday, 13 million persons with fewer 59 years with this and other problems of health must be immunized, according to the Ministry of Health. Old patients are the Wednesday white-public stage of the strategy. " The virus can get a beating, even the one who is stable, to drastic pictures ", affirms Ant?nio de P?dua Mansur, teaching-free teacher of the Institute of Heart and member of the Society of Cardiology of the State of Sao Paulo. He detaches which persons who suffered a heart attack and they had vascular compromising they have special indication of the vaccine. But an individual who has only high blood pressure, controlled, no. According to the ministry, of 4.434 cases confirmed in 2009, 21,6 % (957) they pointed to some chronic condition. The group of the chronic diseases of the lung, like the serious asthma, was the most frequent thing, with 20 % of the cases. Between the cases with some chronic associate condition, 60,3 % developed serious pictures and 20,6 % died. Of the group, they make part individuals with pulmonary problems, cardiovasculares, hepatic, renal and disturbances imunol?gicos serious, besides persons with obesity degree 3 (great obesity) and all the diabetics. The obese ones of degree 3 are those with Rate of Physical Mass (weight divided by the height to the square) above 40, in case of adults. Already the diabetics, emphasize Mansur and Ricardo Meirelles, president of the Brazilian Society of Endocrinologia, have bigger sensitivity to infections because of the compromising of the system imunol?gico. Together with the ill chronic population up to 59 years children will have to be immunized, in this week, of 6 months to 1 year, 11 months and 29 days (4,5 million individuals) and part of the pregnant women, appreciated in 3 million women. The last group will be able to be vaccinated up to the end of the megacampaign, in 21 of May. The informations are of the newspaper O State of S. Paul. Calend?rioGestantes: Of today to 21/5. Children from 6 to 23 months and chronic patients with up to 59 years: Of today to 2/4. Adults from 20 to 29 years: Of 5 to 23/4. Old (from 60 years) with chronic disease: From 24/4 to 7/5. Adults from 30 to 39 years: Of 10 to 21/5. Chronic diseases: obesity degree 3 (ancient morbid obesity); respiratory chronic diseases from the childhood; asthmatics (serious forms); imunodeprimidos; hepatic, renal disease and hematol?gica; bearers of the Clinical Syndrome of Heart failure, between others.

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Re: Vaccination against influenza H1N1 began Monday

The Justice informed in this Monday (22) that the Trade union of the Doctors entered with an injunction due to the difficulty of the professionals of health of influenza found the vaccine against the flu A (H1N1).
The second stage of the campaign of vaccination against the new flu began in this Monday and it goes up to the day 2 of April.

According to the president of the trade union, Jorge Darze, many doctors informed that they were up to health centers and did not manage to take the vaccine.

In the last Friday (19), the judge of the case determined what the municipal General office of Health has 72 hours to give explanations. In accordance with the Court of Justice of the Rio, the general office must still be notified this week.

The vaccination against the flu H1N1 began in the last day 8 for professionals of health and Indians. However, the Ministry of Health enlarged the vaccination and determined that, from Monday (22), doctors of public and particular surgeries also might be vaccinated.

Stickler of discipline says that not to have received vaccine for pregnant A municipal General office of Duke's Health of Stickler of discipline informed in this Monday that it did not receive the shares of vaccines against the flu influenza A (H1N1) special for pregnant woman.


In accordance with the state General office of Health, the state received of the Ministry of Health (MS) to remittance of vaccines without adjuvante, what is the indicated one for immunization of the pregnant women.
The general office informed for what it asked the local authorities that were going to look for the imunizante, but, according to the general office, few ones did the retreat. The general office informed still that the remittance done by the ministry contains 700 thousand doses of the vaccine without adjuvante, sufficient quantity in order that all the women immunize pregnant women today in the state, total appreciated in 195.465. In accordance with the Duke's general office of Stickler of discipline, the shares for chronic and childish patients of six months up to two incomplete years arrived and they are being applied normally.
The pregnant ones that look for the vaccine in the posts of vaccination of the local authority, in the Lowland From the state of Rio de Janeiro, are being orientated returning to these places from Thursday

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Re: Vaccination against influenza H1N1 began Monday

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Six health units vaccinate people with chronic diseases against H1N1
March 23, 2010 at 10:46

From this Tuesday (23), patients with chronic diseases under 60 years receive vaccination against influenza A (H1N1) in six health units in the capital. The decision was taken on Monday (22), the Coordination of Immunization Against Influenza A - formed by technicians from the Municipal Health Department (Semus) and the State Department of Health (SES).

Patients with chronic diseases can search for mixed units of Bequim?o of Itaqui-Bacanga, the St. Bernard Health Center Paulo Ramos, the Health Center and Hospital Gen?sio R?go Adelson Sousa Lopes (Vila Luiz?o). Since vaccination for pregnant women and children over six months and less than two years continues until the second day of April, in the halls of immunization of 78 public health facilities in the capital.

On the last weekend, were vaccinated 12,192 women and 51,557 chronic patients in Effort Immunization, a partnership between Semus and SES. In addition to health workers, St. Louis already has vaccinated a total of 80,453 people against the H1N1 virus.

The dates of immunization for at-risk groups were determined by the Ministry of Health, adults 20 to 29 years will be immunized within 5 to 23 April and those from 30 to 39 years, from 10 to 21 May. The second dose of vaccine for children older than six months and less than two years is scheduled for the period April 26 to May 7.

Patients with chronic diseases over 60 years will be vaccinated in the period from April 24 to May 7 - also happens when the annual vaccination campaign against the common cold.

Following is a list of 78 health units in the capital who are ministering the vaccine Influenza A (H1N1) - the full list is at the portal of the Municipality of S?o Lu?s - www.saoluis.ma.gov. (The Secom / City of St. Louis)