(27 Nov 2009) SHOTLIST
November 27, 2009
1. Doctor being vaccinated
2. Exterior of Enrique Cabrera Hospital where staff are receiving the first H1N1 vaccines
3. People walking in hospital
4. Nurse walking in room with a H1N1 vaccine trolley
5. Cutaway of media
6. Nurse showing vial of vaccine
7. Close of sign reading: (Spanish) "Health Secretariat"
8. Nurse injecting doctor with vaccine
9. News conference with hospital medical directors
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Armando Ahued, Mexico City Health Minister:
"As you now the health sector has started the vaccination campaign, beginning with high risk groups... firstly, health workers, who are exposed to sick people and are at higher risk, next, we will vaccinate women in their third trimester of pregnancy."
11. Cutaway of media
12. Wide of news conference
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Armando Ahued, Mexico City Health Minister:
"What's important to highlight is that influenza has become a preventable disease, one (first) because there is already a vaccine, and secondly because there are actions people can take to avoid it. Third, it is a curable disease."
14. Doctor Armando Ahued being vaccinated
FILE: April/May, 2009
15. Various of hospital patients and medical staff wearing surgical masks and some using complete protection
16. Street scene, including people wearing surgical masks
STORYLINE
The Mexico City's Health Minister, Doctor Armando Ahued, became the country's first person to get the A H1N1 influenza, also known as swine flu, vaccine on Friday.
He also announced the official start of a vaccination programme in the Mexico capital, starting with doctors and nurses at the city's Enrique Cabrera Hospital.
Ahued said that they had received 81,430 doses for Mexico City from the federal health ministry and are planning to vaccinate 7,250 people, mainly medical staff at 28 hospitals and 220 clinics run by the City administration.
Next Monday, 30 November, 2009, it's planned to vaccinate 30 pregnant women at an advanced stage of pregnancy.
The next group considered to be at high risk, he said, would include children, diabetics and people with morbid obesity.
Mexico's health secretary, Jose Angel Cordova, says the country has received a first shipment of 865-thousand swine flu vaccines and seven (m) million doses are expected by the end of the year, with plans to buy another 22 (m) million doses.
Up to Friday, Mexico has had 64,322 reported cases of swine flu and 573 deaths, in a total population of more than 100 (m) million.
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