The Ministry of Health announced on Thursday, 10, which is a strengthening in the school’s health program, with a contribution of $ 150 million. The volume said that on Monday, 14 years old, a national mobilization of the project will begin, with a focus on vaccination, which will continue until 25 of this month.
According to the government, the campaign’s goal is to fortify 90 % of students from 9 months to 15 years. The priority vaccines will be for each age group:
For students from 9 months to children under the age of five:
Triple yellow fever (measles, mumps and measles) is a bacterial bacterial (DTP)
For students from 5 years to children under the age of 15:
Triple Triple Bacteria (DTP) ACWY HPV
About 80 % of the Brazilian public schools are part of the program, with 5544 municipalities adhesion. The ministry estimates approximately 28 million students attended by health in the school.
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These children and adolescents can be vaccinated in the basic health units (UBS). According to Ana Luiza Ferreira Rodrigues Caldas, Primary Health Care, health teams in each region will move to teaching units to encourage vaccination.
After an unprecedented decrease in children’s fortification rates, which started in 2016, the Ministry of Health announced last year to improve the coverage of 13 children’s vaccines.
Despite progress, the rates are still lower than the goals that the federal government has called, which ranges from 90 % to 95 %. The idea of packing is exactly to achieve these goals, according to Anna Louisa.
The ministry stated that schools will allow parents and guardians a term or rejection. Health professionals will check a child or teenagers ’vaccination card in the teaching unit.
“Those who are more weak in the past ten years. Providing the opportunity for the child to vaccinate in the school is a relief to their parents,” said Mauro Gaimars Jonkoireh, CEO of the National Council of Municipal Health Secretariat (Conastements).
Anna Louisa confirmed that the program is not only related to immunization, and even during mobilization with this, other offers will be presented to the school community, such as education on mental health and oral health.
