Michoacán.- The Covid-19 vaccination platform for pregnant women has caused controversy as several women have achieved registration even without being pregnant
The online system allows anyone to obtain a folio, after the Welfare Secretariat announced that this strategy would be launched in the face of high maternal mortality rates, the first cause of which is Covid-19
In the process the data subject only needs to access vacunacovid.gob.mx, enter with curp and answer the question: “Are you pregnant?”
If yes, the next field you are asking to cover is weeks of gestation, even allowing the figure “0”, leaving the express request that the vaccine be for women at least nine weeks pregnant.
Even if the response is negative, the site supports continuing with pre-registration, filling in the address fields, two contact phones, and two emails. At the end of the platform provides a folio, regardless of the responses.
In the face of such a situation at the vaccination posts in Mexico City they requested pregnancy tests, but also began circulating the invitation in WhatsApp groups in Michoacán, so that all women overage of the entity can carry out this procedure.
Undersecretary of Health and Prevention Hugo López-Gatell clarified on his Twitter account that “registration for Covid-19 vaccination is only open to pregnant women from 18 years of age and people 50 to 59 years of age.” The tweet is accompanied by one of the apocryphal messages, where the legend “False” is overposed.
In epidemiological week 18 in the country the estimated maternal mortality is 49.6 deaths per 100 thousand births estimated, an increase of 58.3 percent in the rate compared to the same epidemiological week of the previous year, with 134 pregnant women dying (40.0%) SARS-Cov2 virus confirmed and 15 with this unidentified virus (4.5%).
Among the six entities with the most maternal deaths is Michoacán with 15 registered cases, surpassed by the State of Mexico (61), Mexico City (28), Jalisco (25), Puebla (19) and Chiapas.
