On September 20 will start the pilot phase Vaccination Electronics Primer, in order to have more control over the actual immunization of minors and prevent further outbreaks of preventable diseases

The goal for the remainder of the year of the initiative of the Secretariat of Health (SSA) and the Carlos Slim Health Institute is to provide two thousand electronic primers 2017 and reach 500 thousand. 

Miguel Betancourt, director of the Institute for Global Solutions Slim said at the Second Symposium on Vaccination, in northern states of the country has identified the risk of outbreaks of measles and pertussis cases that are occurring in the United States. 

Therefore considered important to know the actual vaccination coverage in states and municipalities because sometimes different from the national rate of about 90 percent. 

He explained that the platform developed at the Institute, which involves sticking an electronic chip to the vaccination card to store the data of the minor and vaccines are applied, also allow parents to report on which schools do not apply biological and cause. 

The information can be captured on a mobile device and sent to the cloud and meet the security protocols to be protected from hackers on the Internet. 

Betancourt said that currently know how much vaccine the federal government buys, but the absolute number of those who apply because there is a natural waste from the substance that adheres to the packaging or the cold chain is not known to have been broken. 

"What we want is to update the national database vaccination to know how many children, where by state, county, community or hamlet, to know where there are shortages and focus on where more shots are needed. 

"In national average we are 92 percent vaccination, but if we scratch the surface in a state or municipality will surely be rural municipalities where they do not go with the average so we can focus and adjust, because if we let our guard then we'll start having outbreaks already eradicated diseases, "he said. 

The National System of Mexico Vaccination protects against 14 diseases, with 10 shots on the population aged zero to five years old, one of the most complete in the world schemes. (Puerto Vallarta / Agencies).