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09-28-2006, 03:17 PM
The Ministry of Public Health has announced that it will start to vaccinate elderly people living in 44 homes for the elderly next Monday to prevent them contracting pneumonia. More than 150,000 doses are due to be administered. The vaccines, one to stop the common cold and one for meningitis, were donated by Merck Pharmaceuticals, and are worth RD$175 million. This is the first project of its kind in the country and Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez hopes to implement this type of program for other vaccinations in the future.
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