They blame Oaxaca hospitals and health centers for vaccine shortages

Oaxaca de Juarez – Hospitals and health centers IMSS health in the following state Oaxaca There is a shortage of registered newborns and minors in vaccination programs, according to the Ministry of Health labor party (PT).

Local Labor Party representative Noé Doroteo Castillejos mentioned the case of a mother from a small town in the Tlacolula district who traveled to Tlacolula for three weeks. IMSS Bienestar Hospital in Tlacolula vaccinates her newborn and other children until Aug. 28, 2023.

The woman also decided to go to the IMSS Bienestar hospitals in Mitera, San Bartolomeguiarana and Santa Ana del Valle, but she also did not find the vaccine. According to his testimony, he asked friends and relatives living in other cities and regions of the state who told him the same was true.

The PT legislator mentioned that vaccines for newborns and minors have not yet been found, including BCG against tuberculosis, triple bacterial vaccine against diphtheria and tetanus, and triple viral SRP. This has led to an increase in complaints from families because of an inadequate vaccination program, he said.

“This civil society organization called the zero shortage It was recently mentioned that coverage of all vaccines has declined severely over the past six years Universal Vaccination Program…Some vaccines have bottomed out, such as BCG coverage at 27% in 2020, hepatitis B at 39.4% in 2021, SRP at 54% before the measles outbreak in 2019, and lack of HPV vaccine in 2019. In 2020 and 2021, on the one hand due to international shortages and on the other hand the authorities have been slow to manage their acquisitions,” said the PT representative.

By reaching a consensus, he urged Sanitation Committee However General Directorate of Health Services of the State of Oaxaca

IMSS and Sanitation Committee The Mexican government guarantees the universal right to health by supplying and distributing vaccines to newborns and minors.