Thursday, March 21, 2024 | 2:30 pm
Health promoters are kicking off a flu vaccination campaign this morning, with a focus on ensuring as many people as possible are vaccinated before winter arrives, when the virus spreads more. In San Pedro, it applies to Caps, hospitals, Northeast Health District, and they can perform surgeries in schools, communities, homes or institutions.
In the capital of Araucaria, the first to receive important tools to prevent severe flu symptoms are health workers, who are exposed to infectious diseases on a daily basis and therefore invite the entire population, especially those at risk. Vaccination centers receive doses.
Although severe flu symptoms have been shown to be reduced in vaccinated people, health promoters year after year use different alternatives to convince people, especially parents, to get children between 6 months and 2 years old vaccinated. , because these are susceptible patients, they can be vaccinated. People with serious illness, people over 65 years old and pregnant women. There is still some resistance to this vaccine.
Regarding the anti-influenza campaign, Dr. Christian Cristaldo noted in Dialogue with the Territory that “Today the campaign starts in hospitals, in the North-Eastern Health Region, in all the regions, we can carry out vaccinations in schools, institutions or at home , we’re waiting for them to call us from those locations. It’s extremely important to get people vaccinated before the cold weather arrives.”
As for dengue patients, they can be vaccinated after being discharged from hospital. People who should receive the flu vaccine are: health workers, pregnant women in any trimester of pregnancy, postpartum women, children 6 to 24 months (inclusive), people aged 2 to 64 (inclusive) with risk factors, people over 65 years old adults. Strategic talent. Dosing is free and mandatory.
Those interested in receiving vaccinations from an extension worker in their community, school or facility can request services at the Northeast Health District (former hospital building). The above-mentioned in-town vaccination centers are located in urban and rural areas and provide vaccinations in the morning and afternoon.