The catch-up week, corresponding to the second stage of the National Oral Bivalent Polio Vaccination Campaign, will be extended until next Saturday, June 28, for those minors who were unable to receive the vaccine on the scheduled date.
In a recent appearance on Cuban television, Dr. Francisco Durán García, national director of epidemiology at the Ministry of Public Health, called on parents to take their children to vaccination centers, as the goal of this campaign is for all infants to be vaccinated.
He said that the booster is also being administered to nine-year-old children.
According to health authorities, polio, a serious and potentially disabling disease, was eliminated in Cuba in just four months after the first vaccination campaign in 1962.
Since then, the discipline of families and their responsibility for vaccination have been key to maintaining this status, which in turn translates into joy for households.
The Ministry of Public Health remains committed to the National Immunization Program, which includes 17 vaccines, 12 of which are produced domestically.
