On Thursday, the province’s flu vaccination campaign begins. The launch ceremony took place at the Juan Domingo Peron Hospital in Tatagal and later at the Santa Victoria Hospital. In the city of Salta, the event takes place at Health Center No. 60, located in the neighborhood of El Mirador del San Bernardo.
Influenza vaccination is available in all hospitals, health centers and public vaccination centers and is free of charge to all persons in high-risk groups identified by the national Ministry of Health.
Adriana Jure, director of the immunization program, explained that 73,000 doses of the vaccine have been received and distributed across the province, aiming to reach those most at risk of complications, hospitalization or death from the flu.
Likewise, Jure noted that free doses are available to health workers, pregnant women, anytime during pregnancy, postpartum women, 10 days postpartum, children, 6 to 24 months, people over 65 years of age, and those between 2 and 64 years of age Risk factors for people.
Consider risk factors:
• Respiratory Diseases
• heart disease
• Immunodeficiency
• HIV infection
• High doses of immunosuppressive drugs or corticosteroids
• Functional or anatomic asplenia
• Severe malnutrition
• Oncology, hematology and transplant patients
• Diabetics
• Chronic renal failure (CKD) patients who are receiving or requiring dialysis
• People who are obese or have a body mass index (BMI) greater than 40 (these do not require a doctor’s prescription)
• Severe delay in sexual maturation in children under 18 years of age
• Genetic syndromes, neuromuscular disorders with respiratory compromise and severe congenital malformations
• Chronic treatment with acetylsalicylic acid in children under 18 years of age
• Cohabitants or close contacts of patients with oncology and hematology diseases
• Cohabitants of premature infants weighing less than 1500 g.
Public security and armed forces personnel will also be able to receive the vaccine free of charge, subject to vaccine availability.
The flu vaccine can be given with other vaccines (including the COVID-19 vaccine) or at any time interval.
2024 events
For the 2024 vaccination campaign, the province has received an initial shipment of 63,000 doses of vaccine from the national Ministry of Health, with 29,160 doses for children, 25,440 doses for adults and 8,400 doses recommended for people over 65 or with influenza . Basic illness.
The first batch of vaccines has been distributed to all operational areas for mass immunization through health agents in hospitals and health centers, health posts, vaccinations and in the homes of the rural population.
A total of 300,000 doses are expected to be administered, which will cover the target group of high-risk groups to whom the vaccine has been provided free of charge since it was included in the national vaccination calendar in 2011.