The Cuban decavalent Pneumosil vaccine, which protects against 10 serogroups of pneumococci, will immunize more than 3,000 under one year old infants in Holguin province, as part of health protection for vulnerable populations in the country’s third largest territory.
Through a program that will be extended throughout September, infants born between January and July will receive the doses of the drug in the 10 health areas of the provincial capital city, said Norge Miguel Fernández Aguilera, in charge of the vaccination program at the General Directorate of the sector.
He stressed that the process will also be extended to the towns of Cañada de Melones, Uñas, Bocas and Floro Pérez in the municipality of Gibara; in La Caridad from Báguano, and the clinic located in El Ramón, in Antilla, where spaces will be set up in health care centers for this purpose.
He explained that this shot will have a positive impact on the children and will reduce medical attention and hospital admissions for pneumonia, acute otitis media and meningitis, which are frequent in pediatric ages.
He also emphasized that the vaccine is contraindicated in children with acute infectious processes or decompensation of chronic diseases, as well as hypersensitivity to any of its components.
The immunization with Pneumocil will have three doses in which the first one will be applied between three to eight months of age, a reactivation will come 60 days later and reinforcement at the seven months after the initial dose, he emphasized.
With the start of oral polio vaccination in 1962, Cuba is the only country in the world that maintains these campaigns free of charge and at the reach of the entire population, as one of the most significant social programs of the Caribbean island.
According to the World Health Organization, in addition to this disease, Cuba has eliminated six other high risk diseases that are highly prevalent globally, including rubella, measles and mumps, among others.
With information by Eileen Esther Molina Fernández – ACN / Translated by Radio Angulo
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