translated from Spanish: Only vaccines will be applied at National Health Day

Los Mochis, Sinaloa.- The First National Day of Public Health 2020 will be held from Monday 23 to March 27, but on this occasion only with the vaccination component, belén Guadalupe Carrillo reported Félix.La coordinator of the Child Health Program and the Adolescent of Health Jurisdiction 01 stated that with this day the intention was to go to schools to apply to children who are in the first year of primary school, who are 6 years old, the second dose of the SRP vaccine (measles, rubella and mumps) , but in relation to the contingency of the Covid-19, the tours of the suspension of classes will not be allowed. 

However, they will tour house-to-house to find 6-year-olds who are aware of the SRP applying to them.” Preventive actions that were planned for this day in terms of detections of the different programs, be it diabetes hypertension, cancer, etc. are suspended. So in the National Day of Public Health that carry more actions for the population, due to Covid-19, this time only the activities that have to do with vaccination will be carried out”, he explained. IndicationsCarrillo Félix commented that they are attending daily government provisions and if at any time they are told that it is not advisable to do the tours house by house, they would have to suspend, but that for the moment the indication is start the vaccination day with house-to-house tours. He reported that they were already distributing the SRP to those of Health Centers so that on Monday they would already have it available. He mentioned that for this day, 2 thousand 500 doses are available in Sanitary Jurisdiction 01.
But there were already vaccines, which previously, for example for the month of February, gave us a thousand doses. Probably by April they’re going to give us another thousand, so at your disposal, vaccines do.” 

He commented that so far there are no reported cases of measles and those found in Mexico City are imported. 



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