“Alarming figures” on children's vaccinations, warns the Minister of Health: “Who is actually responsible for the children who die from measles without vaccination?”
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The Minister of Health, Alexandru Rogobete, said that he does not support mandatory vaccination, but believes that a “complete, complex, accelerated information” is needed to combat the “medical disinformation” circulating on social networks.
Asked on Digi24 on Saturday about the vaccination rate of children in Romania against measles, the official said that the data is “alarming”.
“I drew attention, a first alarm signal was last year, in the summer, when I saw the figures for the first semester and where I realized that the trend is not an increasing one, which is why I started an information campaign regarding prevention, where vaccination is also included”, said Alexandru Rogobete.
Rogobete is of the opinion that “medical disinformation can only be combated with complete, complex, accelerated information”.
“A noise from this point of view that we can all make so that people understand that these vaccines that we are talking about have been used for 30-40 years, that they have saved millions and millions of people and that they have benefits, continued the Minister of Health.
“All sorts of videos are circulating of pseudo-politicians giving their opinions on vaccination”
Alexandru Rogobete believes that those who spread misinformation about vaccination should be held accountable.
“I would put the question differently: who is actually responsible for these unvaccinated measles dead children? Because on social networks, of course, there are all kinds of videos of all kinds of pseudo-politicians giving their opinion about vaccination, how bad vaccination is, where you can end up if you vaccinate, etc., and I see that they are not held accountable, which I think is a problem and that's where we should start – and I don't I refer here only to politicians, (but) in general to those who give their opinion without being medically approved”, added Rogobete.
The minister stated that he does not support mandatory vaccination.
“I continue to believe that people have the right to choose whether to vaccinate or not, so I am not in favor of mandatory vaccination, but they must choose correctly and properly informed – and that is our duty,” Minister Alexandru Rogobete also declared.
Data from the Save the Children Organization show that less than half – 47.4% – of the children in Romania who should have received the first dose of MMR vaccine last year were immunized.
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