The D-Day of vaccination against polio and other diseases takes place this Saturday (20) throughout the national territory. More than 38 thousand posts will be opened for action, and the objective of the Ministry of Health is to increase the vaccination coverage of the polio immunizer to at least 95% of children between one and four years of age, in addition to updating the vaccination of children under 15 years of age.
The campaign started on August 8th and runs until September 9th. The target group for polio immunization totals more than 14.3 million children. An event will be held to mark the beginning of this weekend’s mobilization in Ouro Preto (MG).
The Ministry of Health explains that those aged between one and four years who have already received three doses of the inactivated vaccine against the basic regimen will take the oral vaccine. Children under one year old must be vaccinated according to the situation found for the primary regimen.
Also according to the folder, vaccines against Covid-19 can be administered simultaneously or with any interval with the others in the National Calendar. in children from three years of age.
The ministry stressed, in a statement, that the application of vaccines increases protection against preventable diseases, avoiding “outbreaks, hospitalizations, sequelae, rehabilitation treatments and deaths”.
“All immunizers that are part of the National Immunization Program (PNI) are safe and are registered by the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa)”, complements the text.
See which vaccines will be available to update your card:
- Hepatitis A and B
- Penta (DTP/Hib/Hep B)
- Pneumococcal 10 brave
- Inactivated Poliomyelitis Vaccine (VIP)
- Human Rotavirus Vaccine (HRV)
- Meningococcal C (conjugated)
- Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV)
- Yellow fever
- MMR (Measles, Rubella, Mumps)
- Tetraviral (Measles, Rubella, Mumps, Chickenpox)
- DTP (Triple Bacterial)
- Varicella
- quadrivalent HPV (Human Papillomavirus).
Here’s what vaccines will be available for teenagers:
- HPV
- dT (adult duo)
- Yellow fever
- triple viral
- Hepatitis B
- dTpa
- Meningococcal ACWY (conjugated)
Source: CNN Brasil
