While the rate of vaccination of basic vaccines in the Expanded Immunization Program for children in Ho Chi Minh City is quite low because of disruption during the Covid-19 epidemic, the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City is in a short serious supply of paid vaccines resulting in interrupted vaccination courses.
The coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic has upended the lives of children and their families around the world. Although no serious complications have been recorded in children as in the elderly and adults with underlying medical conditions, the illness has also caused unpredictable consequences for children, so parents need to be very careful of protecting children during the epidemic.
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health yesterday started to inject combined DTP-HBV-HIB vaccine in the national expanded immunization program in the northern province of Ha Nam, Hung Yen, Nam Dinh and the Mekong delta province of Ben Tre.
Health departments and infirmaries should actively phone the Department of Preventive Medicine or the Vietnam Drug Administration to find out information of vaccine distribution amongst facilities to prevent partial shortage.
Nearly three months some provinces in the Mekong delta have run out of five-in-one vaccine causing anxiety amongst parents meanwhile replacing vaccine has not been distributed.
As the exchange rate is fluctuating, prices of vaccines in Vietnam have recently surged yet some medical facilities announced to be short of many vaccine while parents are afraid of vaccine available in the National Expanded Immunization Program.
Parents in Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring provinces filed complaints against hospitals for not having the six-in-one vaccination available on March 15.
Recent deaths and hospitalization of infants after vaccination has increased worry and fear among parents who now are resorting to willing pay more for better quality vaccines than use those provided free in the Government Expanded Program on Immunization.
