According to the coordinator of the Expanded Program on Immunization of the Ministry of Health (Minsa), Itzel Hewitt, the objectives of this campaign are to promote equity and access to these programs to improve the quality of life.

With the participation of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the official launch of the campaign is scheduled for April 28, at the City of Knowledge Convention Center, in the capital, the official said.

According to Hewitt, the first vaccines to be applied will be influenza, papilloma and pneumococcus.

“As is tradition, the first to receive them will be health officials, followed by senior citizens in nursing homes and bedridden people; then, the vaccination of the general population will follow, in health facilities and strategic mobile points,” she added.

The expert explained to the press that among the vaccines they have never failed to apply are the hexavalent vaccine, which protects against six diseases: polio, hepatitis B and tetanus; as well as the triple viral vaccine (measles, mumps and rubella) and chickenpox.

On the other hand, Dr. Jorge de Jesús Rodríguez mentioned that respiratory viruses are the ones that most affect the local population, especially influenza, adenovirus, rhinovirus and respiratory syncytial virus, pneumococcus and Covid-19.

ef/arm/ro/ga