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Given the resurgence of diseases and vaccination coverage below 95%, experts call for completing vaccine schedules.
Guadalupe Franco
Before him disease outbreakdoctors infectologists They called on fathers and mothers to complete vaccination schedules of his sons and daughters. Furthermore, they warned that childhoods have low protection because their vaccination schedules are below the 95% required.
Vaccination in Mexico
Even though today no are visible active cases of some diseases, experts warn that in Mexico las vaccination coverage are below the 95% for years.
In accordance with Eduardo Arias de la Garza, pediatric infectious disease specialistif this trend continues, it is likely that in the coming months or years, childhoods under two years are the main sector affected by not being vaccinated:
“It is the most impacted group, we now have a population that arrives at 4 years old and they do not have any vaccine. “That is what we must impact so that they recover their schemes and eradicate accelerated schemes and that they have their protections because unfortunately we have the risk of re-emergence of these diseases that are preventable with vaccination.”
Given this, the member of the Mexican Association of Pediatric Infectologyinvited fathers and mothers to complete the vaccination schedules of their sons and daughters.
Currently the National Vaccination Card includes the application of 8 vaccines and protects against 14 diseases. This corresponds to minors 0 to 9 years.
Vaccination schedules for girls and boys
Data from United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEFthey warn that in Mexico exist 316 thousand 830 children y girls con zero vaccine doses. Therefore, it is essential to increase the annual vaccination campaigns.
According to National Health and Nutrition Survey (Ensanut 2022), en Mexico only the 26.6% of girls and boys reached a complete scheme to the 2 years old. Meanwhile he 42.6% they had the complete scheme al year old.
Another result showed that the coverage of the vaccine against Tuberculosis y Hepatitis B was located under the 80%. However, the ideal is for this index to be higher than 90%.
In the case of girls and boys between 5 and 6 yearsin it 47% of households accredited vaccination through a evidentiary document and the 43% he didn’t show it during the visit.
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