Caracas, May 16 (EFE) .- The National Academy of Medicine (ANM) of Venezuela on Monday urged the Government of Nicolás Maduro to increase, “urgently”, the vaccination coverage in all areas and especially the drugs used once morest the poliomyelitis.
“The National Academy of Medicine (…) reiterates the call to the Ministry of Health to establish a mass vaccination plan once morest polio, always being available to the authorities for consultation and collaboration in improving the health of the Venezuelan population,” The academy said in a statement posted on its Twitter account.
The ANM assured that, “in particular, there is a high risk of reappearance of polio cases in Venezuela” and called on the authorities to act in this regard in compliance with the Expanded Program on Immunizations.
In the text, the institution recalled that the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) asked countries to “redouble efforts” to vaccinate children once morest the viral disease and recalled that Venezuela is among the nations classified by this international organization as having “very high risk”.
“According to PAHO data, polio 3 vaccination coverage in Venezuela is less than 80% (report of the 13th meeting of the Regional Commission for Certification of the Final Phase of Plio Eradication in the Americas), and four countries (Haiti, Venezuela, Peru and the Dominican Republic) were classified as very high risk,” the Academy of Medicine detailed in its letter.
He insisted that the poliovirus “can spread rapidly in non-immunized population groups,” for which he stressed the importance of maintaining a high rate of vaccination coverage once morest this and other diseases.
On February 23, PAHO called on the countries of the Americas to increase the vaccination of children once morest polio in order to prevent the disease from reactivating in the region.
In a statement, PAHO warned that the vaccination rate once morest poliomyelitis, a disease caused by the polio virus, was 82% in 2020, the lowest since 1994, when the American continent was certified free of the virus. infection.
The organization warned that polio can return to America if vaccination coverage is not greater than 95% in each municipality and community.
The virus, which is transmitted mainly through contact with feces, affects the nervous system and can cause paralysis in the legs or arms. EFE
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