Epidemics of whooping cough and measles, diseases that were thought to have been eradicated, swept the region. Minister of Health Danica Grujičić says that it is neophono to restore trust in doctors and medicine and announces mandatory whooping cough vaccines for expectant mothers
The Minister of Health, Danica Grujičić, announced the consideration of mandatory vaccination of pregnant women against whooping cough in order to protect newborn children in the first months of life.
The minister is on the occasion of recent events infant deaths from the consequences of whooping cough, assessed that the issue is being seriously considered and that it is up to the Republican Expert Commission for Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases to make a decision on it.
She emphasized to TV Pink that whooping cough is especially dangerous for newborns.
"In some areas, the problem is that vaccination is not done on time." In small communities, the vaccination rate among children is 98 percent, as people are focused on the pediatrician and trust him," Grujicic said, adding that in large communities, the vaccination percentage is lower.
She added that it is necessary to restore trust in medicine and doctors, and that vaccinating children is "the only right thing", and that it also concerns the health of other children in the environment.
Whooping cough: 42 patients in six days
On the territory of Belgrade, from February 12 to 18, 42 new cases of whooping cough, announced the City Institute for Public Health.
The institute stated on its website that from March 2023 to February 18 of this year, 857 cases of this disease were registered.
Out of a total of 857 patients, 531 (62 percent) were fully vaccinated, 60 patients were incompletely vaccinated (seven percent), while 52 were unvaccinated (6,1 percent), and these are children under the age of three.
In the case of 214 patients, the vaccination status is unknown (25 percent), stated the City Institute for Public Health.
Smallpox confirmed in three more people in Belgrade
Smallpox was confirmed in three more people in Belgrade, which is a total of six cases in the capital, Tanjug was told at the City Public Health Institute.
Out of those three people, one 18-year-old was hospitalized. He was not vaccinated and was hospitalized at the Clinic for Infectious and Tropical Diseases with pneumonia.
Smallpox was confirmed in a four-year-old child who was not vaccinated and in a woman (48) who was vaccinated and had a mild clinical picture.
The first two cases were discovered on February 8 in an unvaccinated person who attends high school and an adult who had information in his medical records that he had suffered from the disease.
After that, on February 12, measles was confirmed in an unvaccinated child attending elementary school, and doctors found complications in the form of pneumonia.
The return of these infectious diseases, which were thought to have been eradicated, is linked by experts to low percentage of vaccinated children MRP and pentavalent vaccine.
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