The Ministry of Health of the province of Buenos Aires organized a “Festival of Vaccines” in several Buenos Aires municipalities with the aim of encouraging, through shows and entertainment, that families “come closer and minors can be immunized” and promote the national campaign against measles, rubella, mumps and polio.
During the meetings, which lasted between 4 and 8 pm, there were live shows and different leisure and recreational activities in cities such as Mar del Plata, BahÍa Blanca and Ensenada.
Today the Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Nicolás Kreplakconfirmed that “there is an outbreak of influenza, mostly influenza B and most outpatients” in the province and stressed that “for a few weeks now there have been more hospitalizations for the flu than for Covid.”
“A few weeks ago, since mid-September, there are more hospitalizations for the flu than for Covid”said the official who added that “the flu, having circulated very little for two years, now we have an immune system that reacts more strongly.”
“In general they are ambulatory (this type of flu) although there is a little more hospitalization in children, the ecosystem of diseases is still going to be a little altered,” he said in statements to El Destape radio.
? This is how the Vaccine Festival was lived!
In all the @BAProvince We developed a beautiful day of games and live shows with vaccination posts, so that the little ones can give themselves the extra dose of the triple viral and against polio ???@SaludBAP pic.twitter.com/5x0R7GUAPE
– Nicholas Kreplak (@nkreplak) November 4, 2022
scheduled activities for today they pointed out that the children between 1 and 4 years old who attended to be vaccinated will enjoy the event and, at the same time, receive the additional, free and mandatory doses of the triple viral vaccine (against measles, rubella and mumps), and of the IPV vaccine (against polio) beyond the doses previously received; and without the need for a medical order.
With the campaign “Let’s get vaccinated”that will run until November 15it seeks to maintain the elimination of measles, rubella, congenital rubella syndrome and poliosince it is about contagious and serious diseases, that still cause outbreaks in other parts of the world, but that are preventable with vaccines.
In this way, with these free and mandatory extra dosesavailable in all Buenos Aires vaccination clinics, provides greater protection and prevents these diseases from resurfacing in our country.
Cove
In the city of Ensenada, the event took place at the Gastronomic Walk, located at 117 Sidotti Street.
Of the 2,900 minors that in Ensenada must be vaccinated, 1,300 have received their dose so far so from the municipality they hope that the campaign “helps to get closer to the goal of reaching 90% of the boys and girls who have to be vaccinated,” he told Télam, Ornella Grilli, councilor and official of the municipality’s Secretary of Health.
“We have been working in the gardens, doing neighborhood by neighborhood, and on Sunday we will do a campaign in two city squares to try to attract as many children as possible,” Grilli added.
“He lacked the vaccines for the start of school and one was left hanging for me, which we will complete in the week, because more than four cannot; they put two in each little arm and now we are going to have an ice cream,” Celeste, mother, told Télam Six-year-old Tomás, who between sobbing said that he would choose a light blue and white taste for the World Cup.
Sandra, mother of Thiago, 11, and Mia, 5, came to the Paseo because she saw the advertising on television: “The boy was missing the one for 11 years and she was left with one that I didn’t give him at 15 months” , the woman explained before a nurse with hearts painted on her cheeks convinced the little girl to lend her arm to receive the vaccine.
On a small table full of paper and crayons to paint a brave Batman who will be 3 years old on November 21, he waited his turn quietly: “We went to the vaccination center and they sent us here; he has all of them but he lacks the one for rubella,” said Lía Peter’s mom
In the middle of the afternoon a clown and two circus artists began to display a lot of color and game proposals to entertain the boys and girls who were waiting to receive their dose and to calm the crying of those who had already been vaccinated.
Mar del Plata
The festival was also present in the Plaza Miter in Mar del Plata and there the Associate Director of the Sanitary Region VIII Javier Cabana, told Télam that “this afternoon of the vaccines gives families the opportunity to get closer to update their children’s vaccination by catching up with the vaccination schedule for measles, mumps, rubella or polio.”
“In Mar del Plata we are carrying out this operation simultaneously in this central square, in the La Herradura neighborhood and in the Health Center No. 1 on Avenida Colón at 3200 so that everyone gets vaccinated and is up to date,” he said. .
Cabana stated that “today about 2,500 children have been vaccinated and since we started with this type of projects from the health area We have already vaccinated 7,500 out of 28,000, which is the final goal.”
Griselda Elgard from Los Andes neighborhoodtold Télam “today I brought my youngest son Tomás, 2 years old, to give him the second measles vaccine booster” while remarking “it is very good that this type of operation is carried out in the squares because while the boys play we We completed the health book”.
In the meantime, Marcos Fernandez from the Cliffs neighborhoodfather of Olivia (3 years old) and Valentino (8) stated “today we already completed the calendar with the complete polio vaccine, which is very important for the health of my children”.
“Really, these types of campaigns not only serve to raise awareness but to inform themselves and bring vaccinations closer to places where children can enjoy a ride on a merry-go-round, a ride in a go-cart or play in the sandbox with other children,” said the father while his children They run around asking the price of the popcorn.
White Bay
Similarly, educational games, artistic makeup and delivery of treats were part of the activities to accompany the campaign in the city of Bahía Blanca, in southern Buenos Aires.
The activities organized bya Secretary of Health of the commune together with the First Health Region They were carried out through a mobile phone and a tent located on the Sculptures Walk on Urquiza and Alem, a few meters from the Mayo Park.
“We have been making all the necessary efforts together with the municipalities that make up the entire Sanitary Region I to raise vaccination coverage against measles, rubella, polio and mumps for boys and girls,” he told Télam this afternoon. the associate director of the Health Region, Laureano Alimentiwho was on the spot.
The official said that “we are in the Sculpture Walk within the framework of the festival in relation to this campaign with the aim of attracting said age group and families.”
As he indicated in Bahía Blanca, “we have a goal of a total of 15,138 boys and girls to vaccinate, we are above 20%, we should be a little more”.
In this context and due to sick leave, he maintained that “there is a general exhaustion with all the health processes that we have gone through in the last three years, with a very high degree of fatigue and it is understandable” in reference to the coronavirus pandemic.
For your part Claudia Lugones, referent of the Secretary of Health of the commune, told Télam that “it was decided to make an extended day to see if we can reach the maximum coverage that ends on November 13.”
“Although people at first did not get too close because I do not know what the reason was, if many vaccines after the pandemic, we do not know well, now they are getting closer,” he added.
Among those waiting to vaccinate, was 5-year-old Geronimo, who was accompanied by his father Carloswho are natives of General Daniel Cerri, 15 kilometers from Bahía Blanca.
“Everything was agile, we came to vaccinate the baby so that he can enter primary school, everything is useful and with good attention from the people,” the man told Télam.
