By Andrea Hargraves 
The state has provided all municipalities with immunity, and reinforces the need for residents to seek out health centers to protect themselves from influenza.
Written by Roberta Villanova (SESPA)
05/26/2023 10:16 PM
There are only five days left until the end of the influenza (influenza) vaccination campaign, which since May 15 has been targeting the entire population of Brazil for six months. The Pará government, through the State Ministry of Public Health (Sespa), has been working since March to make the campaign a success, supplying all 144 municipalities with the vaccine. However, many families still do not seek immunization.
Sespa points out that the vaccine is very important for all family members because it protects against three respiratory viruses – influenza A (H1N1), influenza A (H3N2) and influenza B – which helps reduce disease, complications and deaths, especially in children, the elderly and people with comorbidities. .
Vaccination stations continue their campaign against influenza until May 31
Influenza is a viral infection that affects the lungs, nose, and throat. Symptoms include fever, chills, muscle aches, cough, congestion, runny nose, headache, and fatigue.
Double protection – The Minister of State for Public Health, Romulo Rodovalho, stressed that the municipalities are supplied and people can take the influenza vaccine together with the dual vaccine against Covid-19. If every family plays its part in this movement, we guarantee greater protection for the population. He stressed that it is not fair to leave anyone even at risk of dying from a vaccine-preventable disease.
Sespa continues to encourage municipalities to create strategies to reach the campaign goal, and some have already developed various procedures for this. There are even 13 successful trials chosen by the Council of Trustees of Municipal Health (Cosems) to represent the Health Districts of Pará at the I ImunizaSUS exhibition, to be held on July 18, during the 37th National Congress of Municipal Health Secretaries, in the city of Goiânia (GO).
The purpose of the exhibition is to shed light on the practices that occur in the regions, and to highlight the strengths, challenges and future perspectives on the organization of immunization procedures in the municipality.
service: The campaign against influenza continues in vaccination centers in 144 municipalities for residents from the age of six months.