LivinginPeru.com
Isabel Guerra

Peru's Health Ministry (Minsa)
has sent 3,5000 additional doses of Pneumococus vaccines to Juliaca (Puno region, Southern Peru), to prevent more pneumonia cases.
The main goal is to vaccinate young children and elderly citizens, especially those currently living in the highlands, where the temperatures can drop as low as -18°C.
Ana Maria Mendoza, Minsa's National Immunization Coordinator, said that that nurses have also been sent to vaccinate house by house.
The vaccines are already at Carlos Monge Medrano Hospital, and the campaign is supposed to last three days.
According to the Regional Health Authority of Puno, last week five children died of ARI (Acute Respiratory Disease), caused by the extreme cold.
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