Vaccines immunize children in more than 90 percent of diseases, a figure that reaches almost 100 percent, in the case of babies. And forcing to include the vaccination card as a requirement to enroll a child, it is a good way to know if there is universal immunization in the classes, a measure that is already mandatory in European countries.
But in Spain it is not a legal requirement and so far only some communities, such as Castilla y León and Extremadura, establish that the parents of children under three who want to access a public nursery school, provide the vaccination card to enroll , but for informational purposes only.
But this will change. Galicia and the Autonomous City of Melilla have announced that It will be mandatory from the next course to have all doses of the vaccine calendar a day to enroll a child in a public nursery school. A good example to emulate in the rest of Spain.
In Babies and more Obligation of vaccines to access the nursery: how it is in Spain and other countriesThe case of Galicia
A few days ago the Xunta de Galicia announced its intention not to admit public children to unvaccinated children. Yesterday its president, Alberto Nuñez Feijóo confirmed the measure, reports La Voz de Galicia, explaining that: "We will apply it as soon as possible, and if we can this course, it will be this course", referring to the 2019-2020 school period.
Although the idea is that these regulations are already applied in the admission process that begins in March, the Xunta explains that it does not want to improvise, so the measure will not be official until all the administrative and legal fringes are well closed.
This initiative is based on several sentences that prove right to Spanish centers that vetoed children who were not protected. What Feijóo says is clear is that "The mission is to protect vaccinated children from zero to three years old and those who are not vaccinated from an anti-vaccine current that unfortunately has a certain intensity in the Galicia of the 21st century."
Vaccination in Melilla
The president of the Autonomous City of Melilla, Juan José Imbroda, has informed in a press conference that from next school year it will be required that children who go to daycare centers in the city have mandatory vaccinations.
He explains, as El Faro de Melilla collects, that it is a preventive measure that has no connection with any health problem and that only seeks to ensure the health of all children and people living in nursery schools.
In Babies and more Vaccine calendar 2019: these are the noveltiesAccording to the common vaccination schedule recommended by the Ministry of Health, Consumption and Social Welfare of Spain, children from zero to three years should be immunized against diseases such as polio, diphtheria-tetanus-Pertussis; influenza B; measles-rubella-mumps; hepatitis B and meningococcal disease C.
The same calendar recommends vaccination against chickenpox and pneumococcal disease.
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