Health authorities of the provinces confirmed this Tuesday that after receiving the doses of the Modern Pediatric vaccine sent to them by the Nation, they launched the operations to enable anticovid vaccination in children from the age of 6 months, given that some announced that they will grant shifts and others will apply them in the usual vaccinations together with the inoculations of the official calendar.
The Ministry of Health ordered this Monday the distribution of the first 645,600 doses of the vaccine that, according to what was agreed at the last meeting of the Federal Health Council (Cofesa), will be destined for children from 6 months to 5 years, both to start and complete schemes between 6 months and 2 years 11 months and 29 days, such as for the start or application of reinforcements in the population of 3 and 4 years.
The start of the inoculation of this vaccine to young children was agreed by the ministers of Cofesa after the recommendation of application by the National Administration of Medicines, Food and Medical Technology (ANMAT) and the National Immunization Commission (Conain). ), added to the support of scientific societies, such as the Argentine Society of Pediatrics (SAP).
Buenos Aires province
In that framework, the province of Buenos Aires has kept registration open since last week for parents or guardians of children from six months to 2 years inclusive, to complete the form on page vaccinatepba.gba.gob.ar to request a turn for inoculation.
The undersecretary of Information Management, Permanent Education and Supervision of the Buenos Aires Ministry of Health, Leticia Ceriani, stressed that for this child population “there was no approved vaccine, now there is the Modern Pediatric, and that is why last week we opened the registration for that babies can sign in and ask for a turn.
And, he clarified that in this case “it is necessary that they register, since the vaccination will not be in the covid vaccination posts but in vaccination centers where they are usually vaccinated with calendar vaccines with the aim that, when they receive the vaccine against Covid , they can also receive another vaccine if it is due by the calendar”.
The director of the First Health Region, of White BayMaximiliano Nuñez Fariña, said that “each municipality, depending on the population, was assigned vaccinations” and pointed out that “once the shifts are enabled, the places will be known.”
“This is the Modern vaccine, with two doses, with a distance from one to the other of 28 days, and the same vaccine is used for the booster from 3 to 4 years,” he explained to Télam.
In Mar del Platathe head of Sanitary Region VIII, Gastón Vargas, told Télam that “as soon as we receive the vacuans we will distribute them in the 16 municipalities that this region covers and for this we will take into account the number of registered in each locality” and revealed that Until today “a little more than 350 have been recorded in Mar del Plata”.
Cordova
In Cordovathe vaccination began this Tuesday in the capital and will continue tomorrow in other cities that, to locate the vaccination centers, can be consulted at Ministeriodesalud.cba.gov.ar/centros-de-vacunacion-covid-19/, given that in the interior localities ” It will be necessary to previously register in the authorized vaccination centers” and the pharmacy network will not participate, said Health sources.
Neuquen
Neuquen It also began this Tuesday with the immunization campaign for children after the arrival of 9,600 doses of Moderna vaccines.
“This is great news, we are very happy to be able to announce that the first shipment of vaccines from the Moderna laboratory has arrived to start with pediatric vaccination and thus protect babies from six months of life”, said the minister. of Health of Neuquén, Andrea Peve, and pointed out that “it will not be necessary to make a prior registration on the official page” of the health portfolio.
Interested people can approach all the devices in the province, such as health centers and hospitals, and from Monday to Friday the vaccines will also be applied in the Spanish theater in the city of Neuquén.
Santa Fe, Mendoza, Jujuy and Chubut
Meanwhile, on Thursday the vaccination will begin in Santa Fe, Mendoza, Jujuy and Chubut, as confirmed this Tuesday by the health authorities of those provinces.
In Santa Fethe vaccination operation for children between 6 months and two and a half years will start this Thursday with posts in the cities of Rafaela, Venado Tuerto, Reconquista, Santa Fe and Rosario, without prior shift, health spokesmen reported today.
The Minister of Health, Sonia Martorano, explained that the operation is possible after the approval obtained by the vaccine from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the National Administration of Medicines, Food and Technology. Medical (Anmat) from Argentina.
Martorano pointed out that there are about 180,000 boys and girls included in the target population in the province and indicated that the pediatric Moderna can be applied together with any of the other vaccines on the national schedule, free and mandatory.
mendozawhich has already received 28,800 doses, announced that on Thursday it will start applying the first vaccines against Covid for children from 6 months to 5 years old, both to start and complete schemes.
In Jujuythe Minister of Health, Antonio Buljubasich, indicated that they received the doses from Moderna and that they were “conditioning them and their distribution will be made to begin with the vaccination of this group this Thursday” and specified that “the target population is 16,000 children “.
Regarding the operation that is going to be carried out spontaneously in already established vaccination clinics, he pointed out that “they are the same schemes that we had previously, initial scheme and first reinforcement, but this will depend on the evolution of the pandemic in the coming months and eventually on the emergence of new types of vaccines”.
Chubut received this Tuesday the first 8,400 doses with which the pediatric vaccination campaign against the coronavirus for children from 6 months to 3 years will begin this week.
The local Health Minister, Fabián Puratich, confirmed to Télam that “we are receiving the first 8,400 doses at the headquarters that will be distributed immediately to start the immunization campaign together with the nation this Thursday.”
In Chubut, the vaccination modality will be “open and single presentation in all the vaccination clinics that are enabled and by the way we will try to complete the scheme with the rest of the family at the time they take the child” explained the minister.
Between rivers
In Between riversthe Moderna vaccines began to arrive and distribution to the entire province will immediately begin, to then start vaccination days, sources from the Ministry of Health told Télam and explained that it was decided this way to “attend to the particularities” that each locality has and the “quantity of trained human resources”.
The Undersecretary of Integrated Networks and Health Services from Entre Ríos, Marcos Bachetti, stressed the “importance of fathers and mothers taking their children to vaccinations to raise the protection of the entire community” against Covid-19.
saint Louis
saint Louis received this Tuesday 7,200 doses of pediatric vaccines against the coronavirus and will begin to apply it this week in hospitals and reference centers and, according to health sources, there will be no call by text messages and it will be fathers and mothers who must take children, directly to be inoculated.
“We have a meeting of the Federal Health Council to determine when we start with the vaccination operations that will undoubtedly start this week, but after this meeting, which will be virtual, we will have more details about the start,” explained the Minister of Health, Rosa Dávila, in statements to the local press.
Black river
In Black riverthe Ministry of Health reported that they expected to have all the pediatric vaccines for the province this Wednesday and then have the immunization strategy.
Tucuman
The Minister of Health of TucumanLuis Medina Ruíz pointed out at a press conference that “it is very likely that this week we will start vaccinating children from 6 months to 2 years 11 months and 29 days with the modern vaccine, which was the population that we were left without the possibility to get immunized and protect yourself”.
The Rioja
The Rioja scheduled this Tuesday the distribution of the vaccines that were brought to the province to begin the application from Monday 8, the head of the provincial Vaccine, Silvia De Donatis, told Télam.
