Without vaccination school ban?

Doctors complain about shortcomings in the vaccination of children

14/10/2014

No matter what kind of teething it is, the vaccine protection is currently not available for many children. This affects mainly children from refugee families. Because refugee families would be medically poorly supplied, as shown by the vaccine protection of the children. Therefore, pediatricians also sharply criticize the health policy of the federal government.

"All those who come to the country would actually have to get a new primary immunization in order to avert the danger, but that costs money and personnel, and that is not sufficiently secured at the moment," criticized the president of the professional association of paediatricians (BVKJ Wolfram Hartmann. For each child is entitled to vaccination against preventable diseases such as diphtheria, measles, mumps, chickenpox, tetanus and polio, Hartmann continues to the "world".

Since the vaccine protection is also inadequate for other children, the proportion of Impfverweigerer is about 3 percent, the Association demands that children without adequate vaccine protection not in public kindergartens and schools are likely.

The Robert Koch Institute assesses the situation in a similar way: Especially with measles is not vaccinated with the necessary consequence, but also in standard vaccines against diseases such as rubella, mumps or hepatitis B, there are deficits. The Federal Association of Paediatricians also calls for a Kita quality law, which ensures a nationwide mandatory minimum standard.

Paediatricians are calling for children to be legally enshrined in their right to vaccination
Basically, the association criticizes according to the world that the health policy of the Federal Government is essentially focused on the care and treatment of the elderly and the chronically ill while neglecting the children's medicine. Moreover, the right of children to physical and mental integrity in Germany would be secondary to parenting rights.

Association President Hartmann calls in this context to strengthen children's rights by a constitutional amendment. This is necessary so that in the future the "fundamental right of every child is to be valued higher than the parents' right of education", Hartmann had said at the opening of the congress on Sunday in front of 400 participants. It was untenable, "that under current law and those parents who do not comply with their duty of care and their educational mission, a" priority status "is granted", which would have to bow to both state organs as well as the doctors, according to Hartmann, according to doctors newspaper. For example, parental duty of care is negligently neglected if a child is deprived of the currently possible protection "against diseases to be prevented by vaccination". Hartmann: "From a medical point of view, one must speak of a lack of assistance". The right of a child to physical integrity, including vaccinations, should always be a priority. Therefore, the BVKJ underpinned its demand to include only children with recognized basic vaccinations in public childcare facilities and schools. Helpful for this is also a "national vaccination concept" to which so far but no federal government dared criticized Hartmann. In the future, children who are not well protected will be at risk of developing chickenpox, mumps or measles. (Jp)