Moms’ vaccine hesitancy improving — DoH

An official of the Department of Health (DoH) on Saturday said there had been an improvement in the vaccine hesitancy among parents during the agency’s continuous immunization drive against measles.

“It is really sad that there’s an outbreak like this because many get sick and die but at least mothers are now aware in bringing their children to health centers for vaccination,” Corazon Flores, DoH National Capital Region Center Director for Health Development, said in an interview.

Vaccine hesitancy is a scenario where mothers become hesitant to have their children immunized with vaccines that were long proven to be effective.

Flores said DoH has observed that more mothers are lining up in health centers in the past days to have their children vaccinated.

More and more parents are having their children vaccinated against measles. FILE PHOTO “As of yesterday, we were able to vaccinate many children, we’ve reached almost 100,000 vaccinees,” she said.

There are still a few mothers who refuse to vaccinate their children, Flores added.

“Among the 100,000 only less than a hundred refused the vaccines but the situation has really improved as many line up at our health centers. We still encourage those who refuse, we advise that vaccines give protection, it has been proven and tested for a long time,” she said.