AREQUIPA, Peru – The Cuban Ministry of Public Health informed about the start of the second stage in the pneumococcal vaccination strategy, with the vaccination campaign aimed at those born in 2022.
After reaching 2 years of age, infants will be administered a single dose of the Cuban Quimi-Vio vaccine.
The campaign will be carried out throughout the national territory in vaccination centers in health areas, from October 14 to December 31 of the current year.
The vaccine protects against meningitis, pneumonia and acute otitis media, caused by the pneumococcus bacteria.
Last July, the Cuban regime boasted in its propaganda media about Quimi-Vio, an anti-pneumococcal vaccine that had just received health registration from the Center for the Control of Medicines, Equipment and Medical Devices. Cuba.
However, while the official press boasts of these scientific advances without mentioning the scarcity of resources in hospitals Cubans and the lack of supplies for treatments, many children suffer from the crisis of the health system.
Last year, eight newborns died at the Diez de Octubre Gynecobstetric Hospital in Havana in the first two weeks of the year. recognized the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP).
According to the information, four of these children died with presumptive signs of sepsis and the others from other causes related to their delicate state of health.
The brief note indicated that at the hospital, popularly known as Daughters of Galicia, measures were adopted to address this situation; Just as a National Commission of the Ministry of Public Health has been created to “investigate the causes of the incident and according to the results, the pertinent measures would be applied.”
