Frustrated with being given the run-around, a Cape Town school nurse says she’s battling to have her pupils vaccinated against diphtheria and tetanus.
The other alternative is for parents to have their children immunised privately, which can be a costly affair.Reports of the critical state shortages started as early as last year. Professor Claudia Gray is a paediatrician with sub-specialist accreditation in allergology. In her view, childhood vaccination is not a question of “if”.
Two of the infected were children, and it’s likely they did not receive their vaccines, said National Institute for Communicable Diseases consultant Professor Lucille Blumberg.
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