Filipino parents urged to vaccinate kids against measles
Published on: Friday, October 09, 2020
By: ABS CBN News
A municipal health worker (left) applying drops of a polio vaccine to child at a relocation site for informal settlers in San Jose Del Monte in Bulacan province, north of Manila.
MANILA: A paediatrician on Thursday urged parents to schedule their children for vaccination against measles as the health department warned that another outbreak may occur next year.Parents are scared to take their children to hospitals and health centres due to the Covid-19 pandemic, said Dr. Cynthia Cuayo-Huico, paediatrician and fellow at the Philippine Pediatric Society.
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“We are really scared because we might have another measles epidemic,” she said.
“Our clinics are open. Just schedule your children because we don’t want them to mingle with each other.”
Cuayo-Huico warned of severe complications such as severe pneumonia and encephalitis should children fail to be immunised against the disease.
Two doses of vaccine as the child reaches a year old are recommended, while repeat doses are urged once they turn 4 and 12 years old, Cuayo-Huico said.
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