Guantánamo – At the end of the third week of the National Flu Vaccination Campaign, nearly 7,900 children received the vaccine in the Guantánamo Province, for 80 percent compliance.
Dr. Marjoris Mengana González, responsible for the program to treat Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI) in the territory, assures that this procedure will be extended until September 30 with the aim of reducing severe morbidity and mortality from pneumonia in infants under six months to 2 years of age.
She added that starting on August 15, the second dose will begin for this group consisting of infants under 6 months to one year, 11 months and 29 days, and the vaccine will also be applied to adults identified as the at-risk population.
The 2024 national flu vaccination campaign is being carried out in Guantanamo Province until September for the benefit of a universe of 9,800 children under two years of age, who are summoned by the staff of the family doctor’s and nurse’s offices in the territory.
From the birth of babies, in Cuba the required doses are available to apply twelve different types of vaccines, aimed at preventing 13 diseases.
Eight of these immunization vaccines are made in the nation and all are offered free of charge, including the influenza vaccine that children under two years of age receive in this first stage.
Translated by Liubis Balart
