The preventive part is the basis of the model, since it is less costly than the hospital part and constitutes a priority to return the right to health to thousands of Nicaraguans, she said in declarations to the program Revista en Vivo, on Channel 4 television.

The Minister referred to the recently concluded national vaccination campaign against influenza, which concluded successfully after applying, through the family and community health model, some 600 thousand doses of vaccines to people over six years of age.

In this regard, she recalled that since 2007, a series of key vaccines that did not exist before in the country, such as pneumococcus, rotavirus and influenza, among others, began to be introduced in the country.

She explained that the immunization process against Covid-19 is advancing in Nicaragua, where almost 98 percent of the population has received at least a first dose, while 96 percent of the population has a complete vaccination schedule.

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