It is very important that the vaccination against whooping cough coverage is 95 percent, because we have reached a situation where we have a situation before an epidemic of whooping cough, said doctor Ivana Lakićević in the Colors of the Morning.
"We have come to this because parents forget about the revaccination that takes place in the second year, or out of fear they avoid having their child receive this vaccine as well," said Lakićević.
That is why, she announces, there will be more extraordinary weekend vaccinations at the Health Center in Stara Varoš.
The waiting rooms of the Health Center in Stara Varoš are full, and children aged 11 to 15 most often get sick from whooping cough.
"As for the smaller children and my patients, they are more or less regularly vaccinated, they do not have these symptoms, they suffer from a respiratory viral infection that is characteristic for this time of year," says Lakićević.
He explains that vaccination against whooping cough implies the use of a combined vaccine that contains a component against whooping cough and protects against diphtheria, tetanus, polio...
Parents can get information about vaccination in health centers from selected pediatricians.
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