With the perseverance and efficiency that characterize the sector in Las Tunas, the 63rd National Bivalent Polio Oral Vaccination Campaign began in the province, to be carried out throughout Cuba until April 27. Around 500 vaccination points were established to bring the service closer to the communities and guarantee the quality of the process.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- Yahilín Nápoles Novella, head of the Immunization Program in the territory, told the press that around 14 thousand infants in the province receive their first dose of the Bivalent Oral Anti-polio vaccine, and pointed out that all conditions are created so that each child benefits regardless of their area or region of residence.

The Hygiene and Epidemiology specialist explained that the first dose is given to children over one month old until they are two years, eleven months, and twenty-nine days, with a recovery week from April 29 to May 3, for those who are sick. or outside the province and have not already received it.

Nápoles Novella emphasized that the second stage is announced for June when the second dose will be administered and its reactivation will be provided to a universe of more than six thousand nine-year-old infants.

She also warned that infants who present fever, vomiting, and diarrhea, or those who have an immunodeficiency condition, should not be vaccinated. She explained that the drug can be administered simultaneously to the rest of the immunogens in Cuba's national vaccination scheme.

Under the motto “vaccines for a full life” the 63rd National Bivalent Oral Polio Vaccination Campaign is held to keep Poliomyelitis eradicated in Cuba, a disease that represents serious dangers to human health.