Influenza vaccination campaign: The President received a dose
City of Buenos Aires, March 31, 2011
Presidential Medical Unit provided the president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, a dose of flu vaccine in the framework of the national influenza vaccination campaign, launched on March 28.
Sources of the Health portfolio told M24Digital that the president received the trivalent vaccine, with the strains A H1N1, A H3N2 and B.
Health Minister, Juan Manzur, said that “essential personnel who must be healthy to work and develop key activities for the country”, while explaining that the vaccine wasinoculated to the cabinet of ministers and officials.
From this year on, as defined by the National Executive, influenza vaccine was added to the national vaccination schedule, which made it compulsory and free for groups at risk.
It was with the motive of expanding consciousness, as explained by sources, that the President was vaccinated despite not being at risk.
“We raise awareness of risk on the need to vaccinate, because although there is no pandemic scenario, it is very important to be protected against diseases that are inevitably going to come with the advent of winter,” Manzur said.
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