Camagüey began vaccination against the pandemic flu A (H1N1)

With the objective of to preserve the health and to attenuate the effects of the sharp breathing infections, began in this county like in all Cuba the vaccination cycle against the pandemic flu A(H1N1).

In the Policlinics and enabled areas of health began according to that foreseen the immunization that will include to more than 75 000 people of Camagüey in a first stage that will embrace to all the municipalities of the city, up to the current April 20.

As Rita María Ferrán Torres , subdirector of the Provincial Center of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology specified, like previous step to the vaccination training actions were carried out with the infirmary personnel designated in the vacunatories, with the purpose of guaranteeing the successful development of that program.

Among the populational segments that are prioritized to be more vulnerable to the infection figure: pregnant, puerpers, the children understood among six months and nine years of age, and the workers of the agriculture, the education, the transport and the health.

Equally are immunized as part of the vaccination campaign against the influenza A (H1N1), those smaller than 18 years with cardiovascular malformations, cancerous, hepatic affections and fibroquistics, segments of having hospitalized, and patient with transplants. (Alex López Almaguer - Radio Cadena Agramonte).