The immunological memory of the state failed
One hundred and fifty-two confirmed cases. The official figure that set off alarm bells and brought the Ministry of Health to the streets. In Culiacán, nine improvised centers try to contain what should have been contained for decades.
The images don’t lie: long lines, adult faces. Just the group that thought they were protected. At the Tres Ríos Forum center, the brigades work around the clock applying the biological mainly to people between 10 and 49 years old.
“This day is aimed at newborns from six to eleven months, children up to six years old, and people from 10 to 49 without proof,” declared Cuitláhuac González Galindo, state secretary.
The coverage sounds broad. The urgency, palpable. Until last Friday, according to their numbers, they had administered 281 thousand doses throughout the state. They say they have another 120 thousand ready.
But here’s the annoying detail: if the vaccine has existed since the sixties and childhood immunization programs are the banner of every government report, how did we get here? Where did the chain break?
Measles is not new. It’s an old acquaintance that returns when we let our guard down. When health systems neglect the basics to pursue the media.
As the lines grow under the Sinaloan sun, the uncomfortable question hangs in the air: is this containment or a belated confession of preventive failure?
True immunization is not measured in doses applied during the crisis, but in those that should never have been missed.
