By Imelda Saad, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 05 June 2009 2035 hrs
SINGAPORE: Singapore's Health Ministry (MOH) currently has no plans to make rotavirus vaccination compulsory.
This is because of the low incidence and low likelihood of complications arising from rotavirus-related infections in Singapore.
The Expert Committee on Immunisation (ECI) advises MOH on the vaccines to be included in the national childhood immunisation programme. The committee last reviewed the need for incorporating rotavirus vaccine into the programme in 2006.
The ministry's response to Channel NewsAsia follows a recommendation by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that oral rotavirus vaccines be included in all national immunisation programmes.
The WHO says this is to avert half a million diarrhoeal deaths and two million hospitalisations a year.
- CNA/yt
From ChannelNewsAsia.com; see the source article here.
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SINGAPORE: Singapore's Health Ministry (MOH) currently has no plans to make rotavirus vaccination compulsory.
This is because of the low incidence and low likelihood of complications arising from rotavirus-related infections in Singapore.
The Expert Committee on Immunisation (ECI) advises MOH on the vaccines to be included in the national childhood immunisation programme. The committee last reviewed the need for incorporating rotavirus vaccine into the programme in 2006.
The ministry's response to Channel NewsAsia follows a recommendation by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that oral rotavirus vaccines be included in all national immunisation programmes.
The WHO says this is to avert half a million diarrhoeal deaths and two million hospitalisations a year.
- CNA/yt
From ChannelNewsAsia.com; see the source article here.
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Want to boost your immune system? Drink RESERVE!
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