By launching a multivacization campaign aimed at children and adolescents up to 15 years old on Wednesday (1st), Health Minister Alexandre Padilha made an appeal for parents, mothers and guardians to update the vaccination book of their children. “I’m the father of a 10 -year -old child and I make a point of having all her vaccination calendar.”
“I use the child’s digital booklet because our vaccination calendar is increasingly wide. Even an infectologist like me, if you don’t look at the book, sometimes you can forget about a vaccine or another. The child’s digital booklet not only has all the calendar there but also sends messages to parents – if you registered your child or daughter.”
During a press conference in Brasilia, Padilha also highlighted the safety and effectiveness of doses used in the country to control immunoprevenable diseases. “I would not vaccinate my daughter if I had no absolute confidence in the safety, quality and importance of these vaccines. I would not vaccinate the President of my country if I had no absolute security of the quality, safety and importance of these vaccines.”
“I want to remind the fathers and mothers that they just did not have childish paralysis, just did not have meningitis, just did not have extremely serious illnesses because, one day, their father and mother faced much more difficult situations than today to vaccinate you – at a time when vaccines were not every day in the basic health units and often only arrived on the day of the national campaign.”
At the end of the speech, the minister again insisted that parents, mothers and guardians guarantee the access of children and adolescents to immunization. “Do not deny the right to your child of having the best technology to save lives that human beings have discovered and developed over the years that is the vaccine.”
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The minister reinforced a call to parents to enjoy the month of October, the month of the child, when the ministry campaign to update all vaccines on the calendar.
According to Padilha, research by universities, many with the support of the Ministry of Health, show vaccination hesitation. “Research that we follow about the opinion of the population shows that many people were affected by the lies widely widely forced at the time of the pandemic and that they continue to be disseminated.”
