- We want to simplify enforcement proceedings targeting parents who fail to meet their children's immunization obligations," Dariusz Poznański, director of the Public Health Department at the Health Ministry, told a June meeting of the Senate Health Committee. The ministry plans to amend the law on health services. Instead of a complicated punishment procedure, fines are to be introduced. There will also be an obligation to maintain an electronic vaccination card.
The number of vaccine evaders is growing year by year, and the problem does not only affect Poland. As assessed by the director of the Public Health Department at the Health Ministry, the situation is not yet at the stage where the risk of epidemic outbreaks would arise, but the data raises concerns.
- 2022 immunization status against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis was 94 percent, polio 94.1 percent, hepatitis-B 97.3 percent, tuberculosis 97.7, and measles 90.9 percent. That's above 90 percent overall, but it's not like we can just watch these trends. We must make efforts to keep the po...
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