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The Government will vaccinate house-to-house people who are part of risk groups and have not yet received the first dose

The operation will begin next week and it is to reinforce the task that the provincial governments are already doing. This Thursday there was consensus among all the Ministers of Health to apply it throughout the country

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Joaquin Mugica Diaz

July 1, 2021

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Carla Vizzotti and Alberto Fernández (Chair)

You have to vaccinate everything you can. That is the vocation of the ruling party. On the path to herd immunity that the Government began to travel during the winter, increasing the volume of vaccination is key. Not only to increase the percentage of immunization in Argentina, but also to strengthen the protective shield against the new Delta variant.

In that context, next week the government of Alberto Fernández will launch a national operation to vaccinate house by house to those who have not been able to register or do not have access to health centers. It is a practice that is already applied in several provinces of the country but that will have a national boost in the coming days.

The method has to do with narrowing the range of people who are unvaccinated across the country. In Argentina there are towns that are isolated and where their inhabitants cannot reach health centers. As there are also people who do not have access to technology to register or not.

This Thursday, during a meeting of the National Immunization Commission , the Ministers of Health of all the provinces agreed to advance in the active search for people from the prioritized population who have not yet been vaccinated, through what is known as a strategy. extramural. They will go house to house vaccinating.

The Government will vaccinate house by house those who were not vaccinated (EFE / Juan Ignacio Roncoroni / File)

In the Ministry of Health they consider that to carry out this operation it is best to use vaccines fromSinopharm and Astrazeneca , since they can be kept in portable ice cream makers. Both vaccines can be kept between 2nd and 8th. Different is the situation with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, which must be refrigerated at sub-zero temperatures.

In many provinces the house-to-house operation has been going on for a long time. In Jujuy, for example, at the end of May they began a special operation to vaccinate in towns that are far from urban centers and which are difficult to access with vehicles.

To do so, they mounted an operation to carry vaccines on mules and horses, while in some specific cases they made available a helicopter from the province to vaccinate the few inhabitants of the place. These communities are far from medical centers and depend exclusively on the state to be treated quickly.

Towns such as El Durazno, Alto Calilegua, Molulo or Chañi are some of those that are on the payroll that the Jujuy government put together to carry vaccines with animals or by air. It is the only option they have. A reality that is very distant from what is lived in the center of the country.

In Santa Fe , health centers are established and from there nurses leave to vaccinate house by house those who are not listed in the provincial vaccination registry. This action plan is being carried out in Rosario, the City of Santa Fe and Rafaela.

In Tucumán they decided to carry out a home vaccination to about 2,500 people with reduced mobility, morbid obesity and motor disability. Specific cases.

These are three examples of how health authorities seek to narrow the margin of people who were not vaccinated. The objective of the Ministry of Health led by Carla Vizzotti is to vaccinate the entire population over 18 years of age before the beginning of spring. Along these lines, it is important to advance with a screening of people and apply the first doses or, if they already have them, complete the vaccination cycle.

“We are going to redouble our efforts to complete all vaccination schedules, mainly in those over 40 years of age, and people between 18 and 59 years old with risk conditions, carry out active search actions to vaccinate those who are having difficulties in registering and provide information for those who may have doubts, always based on the provincial strategic plans , " said Vizzotti this Thursday at the Cofesa meeting.

The Government intends to give priority to the closure of vaccination schemes for those over 40 years of age, before advancing on the strip where those between 18 and 39 years old are. However, when the I doses of Sputnik V only serve to initiate vaccination cycles, as well as the next ones that arrive from Sinopharm.

The Government is advancing with different strategies to try to increase the immunity of the population against a possible arrival of the Delta variant which, according to the studies carried out by the ruling party, is much more contagious than the previous strains that circulated in the country.