Vaccination against dengue in Porto Alegre was suspended this Wednesday (23) for lack of new doses . According to the city, the interruption occurs due to the absence of transfers of the Ministry of Health, responsible for the acquisition and distribution of the vaccine to states and municipalities.
To date, the Municipal Health Secretariat says that No forecast for the arrival of new lots.
Immunization was performed in children and adolescents from 10 to 14 years . According to the folder, 20,066 children and adolescents of this age group received the first dose, which corresponds to 27.5% of the target audience.
The second dose, necessary to ensure complete protection, was applied to 6,695 young people, according to the city. This is equivalent to 9% of 72,898 residents of this age group in the state capital.
Porto Alegre decreed emergency situation on Thursday (17) . To date, the municipality records more than 4,600 confirmed cases of dengue. Six deaths were confirmed by dengue in the state – two in Porto Alegre.
A campaign hospital to serve patients with symptoms of dengue was set up last week with the Moacyr Scliar Emergency Unit in the North Zone. The structure is provided by the Ministry of Health and operates 24 hours.
In a statement, the Ministry of Health denied a lack of shipping the vaccine against dengue. Read below in full:
“The Ministry of Health reports that there is no lack of dengue vaccine to the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Since the beginning of the vaccination strategy, the state has received 85,039 doses, of which 63,306 have been applied. Distribution to the municipalities is the responsibility of the State Department of Health. For the years 2024 and 2025, the Ministry of Health acquired all available production of dengue vaccine, manufactured by the only producer World. Deliveries to Brazil occur according to the supplier’s production capacity. The allocation of doses follows technical criteria agreed with the National Council of Health Secretaries, the National Council of Municipal Health Secretariats (CONASEMS), the Immunization Advisory Chamber (CTAI) and the World Health Organization (WHO). In the last ten years ”.
The State Department of Health also spoke in a note:
The state of Rio Grande do Sul, through Ceadi/CEVS/SES received a number of 86,939 doses from 04/2024 to 04/2025. These doses were distributed to the municipalities gauchos able to receive the immunizer, according to the historical series of cases of dengue, following the evaluation criteria of the competent technical area of the MS.
The doses information system applied in RS points to the use/consumption of 63,306 doses.
There is no forecast of a new MS agenda to send dengue vaccine doses to RS. The State will officiate the MS with regard to the depletion of doses in municipalities of high dengue transmission, as the vaccine is a technology of confrontation for the appeal, in addition to the other measures of environmental and epidemiological control.
This content was originally published in Porto Alegre suspends vaccination against dengue due to lack of doses on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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