Galicia will begin this month to vaccinate children against papilloma and on November 1 to put meningitis B – 20minutos.es

This was confirmed this Wednesday by the president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, who presented during a visit to the Sergas building in San Lázaro the new vaccination schedule throughout life, which incorporates child and adult doses and who will approve this Thursday the Consello de la Xunta. With this, on September 15, 12-year-old children will begin to be vaccinated against human papilloma, an immunization that, until now, only girls received. The dose will affect all males born since January 2010. For its part, the meningitis B vaccine, which until now was administered on a voluntary basis paid for by parents, will be given in three doses: at two months, four months and 12 months -remembering-. This inclusion in the vaccination calendar -and the free nature that it entails- will affect, however, only babies born from September 1, 2022, that is, who are two months old at the time of start. As confirmed by the Minister of Health, it is not planned to include those born previously. In the field of meningitis, the childhood vaccination schedule includes another novelty: the change of the second dose of the vaccine against meningitis C, at 12 months , by one that also includes variants A, W and Y. Until now, immunization according to the official schedule was carried out with the meningitis C vaccine at four and 12 months, while at 12 years the booster was done with the dose for ACWY. However, it was proposed to parents to change the 12-month dose for the one that Sanidade will now pay for, although assuming the cost. To conclude, immunization against influenza is included in this new vaccination schedule for all children between six months and five years, a process that will be carried out, like the rest of the target population, during the month of October. 4.6 MILLION During this presentation, Alfonso Rueda highlighted the triple effort made by the Galician Government so that Galicia is “a community of reference in childhood vaccination” and has thanked the work of the General Directorate of Public Health and health professionals in this area. The budget of the Galician vaccination program, he recalled, will exceed 23 million in 2023 euros, 4.6 million more than in 2022 due to the incorporation of these new vaccines. The Minister of Health, Julio García Comesaña, who also participated in the event, highlighted the importance of the new ‘vaccine calendar throughout life’, which will be approved this Thursday by the Consello.”Starting this year, Galicia will have a vaccination calendar throughout life, a comprehensive document that involves a change in mentality about vaccination”, said García Comesaña. In line with what has been learned these years as a result of covid and “awareness of the benefits of vaccines”, this calendar is committed to understanding this process not only as “a childish matter”, if not as a system of “protection of people throughout all stages of their lives”.