After the Health Secretary will challenge the sentence issued by a judge, which ordered the inclusion of all children and adolescents between 12 and 17 years of age in the vaccination process against the Covid-19, the Redim expressed his rejection of such recourse, at the same time he demanded the Republic President to guarantee the right to protection and health of this sector of the population.
The Network for the Rights of the Child in Mexico (Redim) said they reject the view of the federal government that states that “a public policy cannot be defined, based on the interest of a person or group,” so they observed with concern “again the omission of the State to include girls, boys and girls. adolescents in the vaccination policy, in respect of their human rights to equality and health ”.
The agency added that the country’s children and adolescents are more than “a group”, since they represent at least 38,247,958 people, which means 30.4% of the national population, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi).
“Including them must be accompanied by medical evidence; disseminated and transmitted appropriately for them and them, not only discussed in the adult world; understanding the obligation of its inclusion, not of the application, so as not to understand that “it is nonsense” to vaccinate all children and adolescents against the Covid-19”, He emphasized.
The Redim He also expressed his support for the ruling issued by the Seventh Court of the Second District of the Mexico state, based in Naucalpan, who on October 7 ordered the inclusion of all minors in the vaccination process carried out in the country, without any type of discrimination.
While considering that the Health Secretary it should avoid resorting to resources to breach its obligations and “if there is a problem in the purchase or supply of vaccines, this must be explained and administered; the solution is not to exclude any person from the vaccination policy ”.
The foregoing, by arguing that, as of October 10, 2021, a total of 77,913 children and adolescents in Mexico had been infected by Covid-19 (14,507 from 0 to 5 years old, 18,818 from 6 to 11 years old and 44,588 from 12 to 17 years old). Of these, 750 girls, boys and adolescents (400 from 0 to 5 years old, 102 from 6 to 11 years old and 248 from 12 to 17 years old) had died, according to official figures.
Without forgetting, in addition, that 1.5 million people from 3 to 18 years old in the country no longer enrolled in the 2020-2021 school year for reasons associated with Covid-19, so the affectation to childhood and adolescence is evident.
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Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx