It will be held this Saturday (20) the D-Day of vaccination against polio and other diseases throughout the national territory. There will be more than 38 thousand positions open for action. The campaign started on August 8th and runs until September 9th.
The objective of the Ministry of Health is to increase the vaccination coverage of the polio immunizer to at least 95% of children between 1 and 4 years of age, in addition to updating the vaccination record of those under 15 years of age. The target audience for polio immunization totals more than 14.3 million children.
The Ministry of Health explains that those who are between 1 and 4 years old who have already received the 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 with any interval with the others in the National Calendar. in children from 3 years old.
The ministry stressed, in a statement, that the application of vaccines increases protection against preventable diseases, reducing the chances of “outbreaks, hospitalizations, sequelae, rehabilitation treatments and deaths”. One of the risks of polio is infantile paralysis, for example.
“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
