PINAR DEL RIO, November 13 (René Oñate Sixto, APO) – Cuban children are routinely immunized at age one, but only if they happen to be assigned to a clinic that has nine other clients who turn one at about the same time.

Here in Pinar del Río province, there are three children assigned to one clinic who turned one year of age five months ago and haven’t been immunized because the vaccine comes in vials of ten doses, and once it is opened it cannot be stored. The vaccine is available, the personnel and the necessary supplies are available, but until seven more one-year-olds become available, the children cannot be immunized. That’s the directive from Public Health authorities.

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