Childhood vaccination is a basic right of every Pakistani children as vaccines prevent them from disease, disability and preventable deaths, officials and health experts said on Thursday as they.
The government anti-measles and rubella vaccine campaign commenced on November 15 and will continue till November 27 (Saturday). However, during the campaign parents seem reluctant and raise objections that when children have already been vaccinated why they have to be jabbed again. Some children also do not want to get vaccinated and would to everything to avoid the vaccinators. Muhammad Hasan, a school student said that whenever the vaccination team visited his school, he was absent. “I am already vaccinated then why do I need to get vaccinated,” he said. His father requested other parents that they should not get their children vaccinated if they have already been vaccinate.