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Shortage of childhood vaccines anticipated due to Covid-19 disruption

This story was posted 2 years ago
27 May 2021
in Health, Youth
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by Linda Straker

  • Mandatory for children to be immunised to be accepted into school system
  • Parents should make use of window of opportunity before vaccines expire
  • Many childhood vaccines are manufactured by Serum Institute of India

Dr Shawn Charles Acting Chief Medical Officer said that Grenada is one of the countries that will have a delayed receipt of its shipment of mandatory childhood vaccines because of disruption in the supply chain linked directly to the Covid-19 global public health outbreak.

“Covid-19 has caused lots of disruption including supply chain issues. Now, what must also be made known is that many of these childhood vaccines are manufactured by the largest manufacturer in the world which is the Serum Institute of India,” he said.

In response to a question about the apparent shortage of childhood vaccines within the public health system, Charles said, “So, expect some delays due to the disruptions caused by Covid-19. Some of the disruptions in receiving these childhood vaccines have come from this very process, so the disruption that are caused by supply chains throughout the world is resulting in delays of receiving some of these vaccines.”

Grenada sources its vaccine for childhood immunisation through a PAHO facility called the PAHO Revolving Fund which is the same mechanism where most countries in the region source vaccines. These vaccines are given to a child starting at 6 weeks until 6 years. They include vaccinations against measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR); diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DPT) and polio (IPV).

Health Minister Nickolas Steele said that he is aware that stocks of the childhood vaccines are close to expiration. “I am aware of previous stocks coming close to their expiration date, so therefore community health nurses are deciding not to use and wait for new stocks and that may have resulted in some delays of individuals,” he said about the pending shortage.

Calling on parents to always operate under the general principles of safety first, Steele, who believes that vaccines build health immunity, wants parents to make use of the window of opportunity before the vaccines expire.

In Grenada, it’s mandatory for children to be immunised in order to be accepted into the school system. The Public Health (School Children Immunisation) Act says that “no child shall be admitted as a pupil to a pre-primary school, primary school, private school or all-age school unless he or she produces to the Principal thereof a certificate of immunisation with respect to every communicable disease.”

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Comments 3

  1. Kesri Johnson says:
    2 years ago

    Now Grenada… Pretend Journalism that cant deal with the Truth….

    So you do your Masters bidding and Censor Free Speech.

    You are a sad joke.
    Go collect your Journalism award for Press Freedom. Hahaha.

    Reply
  2. Kesri Johnson says:
    2 years ago

    Gosh…. my heart skipped a beat when I glanced the headline and saw…. Kids Vaccine…. and Covid.

    I was just about to scream blue murder…and what madness….

    But phew…. thankfully it was only about supply chain shortages, due to the Political Covid Hysteria which have now resulted in a shortage of the good traditional vaccines for kids, we all know and appreciate.

    Hopefully when Politicians get back to reality from their current Covid Tyranny and criminal scams, those kids can get somewhat safe Vaccines once again.

    As you can see I am not Anti Vax, as some dub me. My kids had all those traditional vaccines.
    I am just anti Experimental Genetic Modified Vaccines that are not fully tested being used on Humans as Guinea Pigs.

    Reply
    • Mike says:
      2 years ago

      Experimental? Do you know that the COVID vaccines are based on the studies on SARS infection?

      Reply

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