ZAMBOANGA CITY --Local health officials here assured the public,
especially the parents, that the vaccines they use in all the immunization
programs are safe.
Dr. Dulce Amor Dagalea-Miravite, OIC city health officer, made the
assurance as several parents are hesitant to allow their children to
participate in any immunization program due to the Dengvaxia scare.
This, as a number of children from the Luzon area were reported to have
died due to the bad side effects of Dengvaxia vaccine.
“The vaccines that we used are tried and tested. Hopefully, they will
not be carried away by the Dengvaxia scare,” Miravite told the Philippine News
Agency.
Dr. Joshua Brillantes, DOH assistant regional director, disclosed
earlier that 60 percent of the parents of the public school children population
to be dewormed did not grant consent due to the Dengvaxia-scare.
Miravite said the immunization program is aimed to protect the children
from disease.
Among the vaccine preventable diseases being used in the expanded
program for immunization include:
Polio, Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG)
vaccine; and, the five-in-one Pentavalent Vaccine, which protects the child
from Dipteria, Pertusis, Tetanus, Hepa B, and HIB virus.
“What will happen if parents will not bring their children in the health
centers for immunization, the children will not be protected and if there will
be a case of measles, there will be immediate spread of the disease and if many
will get the disease, the result will be an outbreak,” Miravite said.
She said they are monitoring all health centers to determine
development in the immunization programs of the government. (PNA)
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