65,000 Kuwaitis And Expats Get Flu And Pneumonia Shots

Approximately 65,000 Kuwaitis and residents have been vaccinated against seasonal influenza and pneumococcal pneumonia, a month after the national vaccination campaign against winter diseases was launched.

The sources said in a special statement to Al-Seyassah daily, that the campaign witnessed the vaccination of about 56,000 people against seasonal influenza, with an average of 8 to 10,000 people in each of the country’s six governorates, and the vaccination of about 9,000 against bacterial pneumonia, “Pneumococcal,” pointing to the trend to expand vaccination campaigns to include public institutions and sectors in various governorates, in coordination and cooperation with the relevant authorities.

In various 50 preventive health centers distributed throughout Kuwait, the elderly, patients with heart and respiratory diseases, and health workers are the groups most in need of vaccination. Vaccination is particularly important for people with obesity, asthma, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, etc., as well as for chronic noncommunicable diseases like those.

According to the sources, winter vaccines should be given to children aged six months and older to reduce the severity of disease and the number of days of transmission of infection, as well as the complications of infection with aggressive respiratory viruses.

 

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