Bolivia, rapid vaccination monitoring launched to reach unimmunized children

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*Campaign will make it possible to assess immunization coverage nationwide *The anti-vaccine campaign during the COVID-19 pandemic is overcome *Rapid vaccination monitoring is carried out in the 340 municipalities

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00:00And in Bolivia, a new vaccination campaign was launched through the Rapid Monitoring

00:03System to detect infants and children who have not yet been immunized against the score

00:08of diseases.

00:09Our correspondent, Freddy Morales, with the details.

00:14The so-called Rapid Vaccination Monitoring was initiated to reach almost 60,000 children

00:19under five years of age who, for whatever reason, did not receive their vaccination

00:24doses last year.

00:25It is in the urban areas where we are not achieving a higher coverage, but this is because

00:32of the high migration we have from urban to rural or vice versa.

00:35But generally in rural areas, all the families are well-known by the health personnel.

00:40They know their name, their last name, how old they are, and they are more identified.

00:46But in urban areas, it is more difficult.

00:54Rapid monitoring will make it possible to evaluate immunization coverage in the nine

00:58departments and almost 4,000 brigadists will be deployed in this campaign.

01:05Our coverage is in the 75 percent range.

01:10We aim to raise that to 85 to 95 percent.

01:12That's our goal.

01:17The campaign consists of checking, house by house, the status of children's vaccination

01:22records.

01:26When we do a rapid vaccination monitoring, we go and look for children who might have

01:30escaped from that age group and who might be older.

01:32We would have to go and recover them, vaccinating these children in order to avoid the risk

01:37of transmission of diseases such as measles due to the epidemiological alerts that are

01:42issued at the international level.

01:51Health professionals consider that the anti-vaccine campaign that manifested itself during the

01:55COVID pandemic has been overcome, which should be verified in daily consultations.

02:01In this time, the COVID vaccines have been very important.

02:05Now I have had seven patients who have passed COVID, but they are not in serious condition.

02:10They had to be taken to therapy as they were totally discomposed.

02:13Now it is like a cold, but they have to be treated.

02:17Vaccines have lowered the level of lethality that COVID had.

02:25Rapid vaccination monitoring is carried out in the country's 340 municipalities.

02:30The state provides the 12 doses to be applied between birth and five years of age, which

02:34prevent 20 diseases.

02:36Vaccinations are also offered free of charge for senior citizens and vulnerable groups

02:41against COVID and influenza.

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