In Europe, children without vaccinations are prohibited from attending school
'15.03.2019'
Source: Rossiyskaya Gazeta
In the Apennines, a law came into force prohibiting kindergarten visits to unvaccinated children, as well as providing for the introduction of a large fine against parents of schoolchildren who did not present a certificate of vaccination.
Based on the new rules, from now on, without a certificate of the presence of vaccinations, children up to 6 years will not be able to enter kindergartens and nurseries, and those already attending preschool institutions will deduct from them. Students aged 6 to 16 years, the ban on attending high school due to the lack of compulsory vaccinations does not threaten, writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
However, their parents will inevitably fall under serious financial sanctions - the amount of the fine in this case will be 500 euros (approximately $ 566).
The deadline for processing the document expires on March 18. It was reflected in the so-called Lorenzin bill (named after former Italian health minister Beatrice Lorezin), which was approved back in the summer of 2017 due to a sharp increase in measles cases and the Italian authorities' intention to increase vaccination rates in the Apennines from 80 percent to required by the World Health Organization 95 percent.
According to this standard, parents are obliged to submit to educational institutions a certificate of 10 vaccination of common diseases: measles, tetanus, diphtheria, hepatitis B, rubella, whooping cough, chicken pox, mumps, hemophilic type b infection and polio.
"Now the rules are simple: no vaccination - no school," commented the entry into force of the new law, the current head of the Italian Ministry of Health, Giulia Grillo, who until the last day opposed the introduction of compulsory vaccination of children, with the exception of the aforementioned measles - over the past two years, an outbreak of this disease on The Apennines increased by almost a second.
In the fall of last year, the ministers of the current Cabinet were preparing a bill, according to which vaccinations for primary school students would become optional. In the category of compulsory, they had to go only on the direct instructions of the doctor in relation to a particular child, in all other cases the decision had to be made by the parents, whose rights, by the way, are enshrined in Art. 5 and 6 of the 1997 Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, on the basis of which “medical intervention can be carried out only after the person concerned gives his free written consent to it”, and in the case of minors, the permission must come from the parents.
Since this initiative has not yet been destined to be born, and daily newspapers convey alarming statistics about children not admitted to classes (their number amounts to several hundred), observers predict that in the near future Italian courts will be literally overwhelmed by lawsuits from parents belonging to the so-called No Vax group. At the same time, the authorities, it seems, are well aware of what all this pressure can turn into.
According to Milan's Corriere della sera, just these days an amendment is being considered in the Italian parliament, if approved, vaccinations will be considered excluded as a “flexible duty”, and not a compulsion, starting from the next academic year.
