{"id":93421,"date":"2021-04-02T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-mexico-direct-relief-deliver-650000-polio-vaccine-doses-to-nicaragua\/"},"modified":"2021-04-02T10:40:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T14:40:03","slug":"mexico-direct-relief-entrega-650-000-dosis-de-la-vacuna-antipoliomielitica-a-nicaragua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/mexico-direct-relief-entrega-650-000-dosis-de-la-vacuna-antipoliomielitica-a-nicaragua\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico, Direct Relief Deliver 650,000 Polio Vaccine Doses to Nicaragua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">MEXICO CITY<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">April 1, 2021<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Direct Relief, working with the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, BIRMEX, and the Nicaragua Ministry of Health (MINSA), transported this week 650,000 doses of the polio vaccine to <span class=\"xn-location\">Nicaragua<\/span> to bolster the nation&#8217;s child vaccination efforts. <\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg5ec4left\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg5ec4left\" title=\"BIRMEX packing polio vaccine in cold-shipping boxes for transport by Direct Relief to Nicaragua.\" border=\"0\" alt=\"BIRMEX packing polio vaccine in cold-shipping boxes for transport by Direct Relief to Nicaragua.\" align=\"middle\" imagelabel=\"General\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1479855\/Direct_Relief_Polio_Vaccines_Nicaragua.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The supplies were delivered via a Direct Relief-chartered AeroMexico flight from <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico City<\/span> to <span class=\"xn-location\">Managua<\/span> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Like most vaccines, the polio vaccine is a cold-chain medication; it must be kept refrigerated between 2 and 8 degrees Celsius, delivered in special containers, with the temperature throughout transit and final delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Direct Relief, a registered civil association in\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3117124-1&amp;h=3957138706&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.directrelief.org%2Fplace%2Fmexico%2F&amp;a=Mexico\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span><\/a>\u00a0with tax-deductible status, worked with the Government of <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span> to transport 95,000 doses of bivalent oral <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3117124-1&amp;h=3307714619&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.directrelief.org%2F2021%2F03%2Fmexicos-government-direct-relief-deliver-donated-polio-vaccine-to-ecuador%2F&amp;a=polio+vaccine+to+Ecuador\" rel=\"nofollow\">polio vaccine to <span class=\"xn-location\">Ecuador<\/span><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Pharmaceutical distributors\u2014and Direct Relief\u2014are among the only organizations with\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3117124-1&amp;h=1281751451&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.directrelief.org%2F2020%2F09%2Fdirect-relief-prepares-for-covid-19-vaccine-distribution-investing-2-5-million-to-expand-cold-chain-capacity%2F&amp;a=cold-chain\" rel=\"nofollow\">cold-chain<\/a>\u00a0vaccine shipment capability.<\/p>\n<p>Direct Relief has extensive experience working with the world&#8217;s largest medical manufacturers to distribute cold-chain prescription medications connected with humanitarian and emergency-response efforts.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Direct Relief completed nearly two thousand cold-chain deliveries of such products, managing end-to-end distribution to health facilities across <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span>, and more than 50 other countries. <\/p>\n<p>The deliveries contained 21.6 million doses of temperature-sensitive medications, including insulin, cancer drugs, hemophilia treatments, vaccines, and biologic therapies for patients with rare genetic diseases.<\/p>\n<p><b>About Direct Relief<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A humanitarian organization committed to improving the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergencies, Direct Relief delivers lifesaving medical resources throughout the world to communities in need\u2014without regard to politics, religion, or ability to pay. For more information, please visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3117124-1&amp;h=2153358092&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.directrelief.org%2F&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.DirectRelief.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.DirectRelief.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3117124-1&amp;h=163707438&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1479855%2FDirect_Relief_Polio_Vaccines_Nicaragua.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1479855%2FDirect_Relief_Polio_Vaccines_Nicaragua.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1479855\/Direct_Relief_Polio_Vaccines_Nicaragua.jpg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  Direct Relief<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">MEXICO CITY<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">April 1, 2021<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Direct Relief, working with the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, BIRMEX, and the Nicaragua Ministry of Health (MINSA), transported this week 650,000 doses of the polio vaccine to <span class=\"xn-location\">Nicaragua<\/span> to bolster the nation&#8217;s child vaccination efforts. <\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg5ec4left\" dir=\"ltr\">&lt;img id=&quot;prnejpg5ec4left&quot; title=&quot;BIRMEX packing polio vaccine in cold-shipping&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-salud"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}