The Ministry of Public Health has begun a drive to ensure parents have completed the polio, measles and rubella vaccine schedules of their young children. The Vaccination Week of the Americas 2022 target is 951,554 children ages 1 to 5 years. The campaign ends on 30 April 2022.
1,420 vaccination centers located around the country have the vaccines available for free. In addition to the vaccination centers, the vaccines will also be available during the campaign at Early Childhood Integral Attention Centers (CAIPI), centers and mobile posts strategically located in remote areas throughout the country.
The campaign tells parents that “To Vaccinate Them is to Love Them!”. The vaccines are part of the regular vaccination schedule available for free for Dominican children at the vaccination centers. The Dominican Republic is certified polio and measles-free. The last case of polio was reported in 1985. The campaign seeks to maintain this status.
The Ministry of Public Health recently received a donation of more than one million vaccines from the Government of Brazil.
The campaign lunching took place at the Santo Socorro hospital in the National District with the presence of the representative in the country of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Oliver Ronveaux; the vice minister of Collective Health, Dr. Eladio Pérez; Dr. Melvin Brioso, governor of the Rotary Club; and the director of the Expanded Program of Immunization (PAI), Dr. Aida Lucía Vargas.
Dr. Ronveaux proposes that each citizen have a QR code in which all the vaccination history and dates are registered to keep the complete immunization plan of each person in one place.
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Diario Libre
21 April 2022