Newsletter| A nationwide shortage of vital vaccines – to help prevent diphtheria and tetanus – has left parents feeling angry, frustrated and anxious
A nationwide shortage of vital vaccines – to help prevent diphtheria and tetanus – has left parents feeling angry, frustrated and anxious
Some parents told City Press that they still were turned away from their local clinics around Johannesburg as a result of the shortage and the resultant stockouts this year. A parent who had taken her daughter for the immunisation in January said the reality of her child missing a vaccine on the government’s list of essential vaccines, was “scary and disappointing”.
The Stop Stockouts Project – a consortium of six civil society organisations dedicated to assisting the thousands of people whose lives are threatened by the chronic shortages of essential medicines and children’s vaccines in South Africa – confirmed that it had received reports of stockouts of the vaccine in Gauteng, Free State, Mpumalanga and Limpopo.
“This could contribute to underimmunisation of children and place the children and others in society at risk.” “What is also angering me is that they don’t tell us the truth, they keep telling us to come back later. But I can’t keep taking off days from work or taking my daughter out of school to spend the day at the clinic.”“If the child has received the full series during early childhood, immunity would last for at least 10 to 12 years, so [it is] less of an issue with regard to not getting revaccinated at five to six years old for diphtheria and tetanus at least,” he said.
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