Pop-up vaccination clinics in Hamilton support DHB's MMR and flu jab campaign & More Trending News

The Waikato DHB’s catch-up campaign for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) goes into the following spherical because the DHB units up particular cell vaccination clinics in Hamilton.

The DHB says though it is just one week into the campaign, it has discovered confusion over many youngsters’s MMR immunisation standing because the schedule modified in 2020.

There can be an ongoing campaign to have youngsters and younger adults absolutely immunised in opposition to measles as many 17-32-year-olds have missed one or each really helpful doses of MMR vaccine.

For youngsters aged 3 to five, the second dose of the vaccine is now due after 15 months and not 4 years. This change has left about 6500 youngsters needing catch-up doses. About 1400 youngsters in the identical age group have missed each MMR vaccinations, the DHB says.

Many dad and mom will not know of the schedule change, as a result of some Well Child Tamariki Ora My Health Book nonetheless have the second MMR dose listed as due at 4 years. Parents of youngsters born since October 2020 have the right immunisation schedules.

As a part of their campaign, the DHB is phoning dad and mom of 3-5-year-olds who’re overdue for his or her second MMR vaccination, figuring out them via the National Immunisation Register (NIR).

The cellphone campaign offers dad and mom details about the place their youngsters might be vaccinated and encourages them to contact their GP or kaupapa Māori well being supplier to make a vaccination inquiry or a reserving.

Alternatively, cell group vaccination clinics are actually being held all through Waikato, providing free flu immunisations to these eligible and free MMR vaccinations for 3 years plus.

People can merely drop into these websites and not using a reserving and the medical vaccinators can verify on the kids’s immunisation standing.

Pop-up clinics can be held in Hamilton tomorrow, 10.30am to three.30pm at The Church Of Jesus Christ and Latter-Day Saints at 91 Tuhikaramea Rd, on Friday 10am to 3pm, at Phoenix House Charitable Trust, 22 Richmond St and Waimarie Community Centre, 53 Wellington St and on Sunday 9am to 1pm, on the Fraser Market, 72 Ellicott Rd.

The DHB says the MMR vaccination was not the one one being missed.

“There is generally a pronounced drop in childhood immunisation coverage since 2020 across the country, due in part to the focus on Covid-19 and the reduced prevalence of serious childhood illnesses while our borders were closed.”

Waikato DHB medical officer of well being Dr Richard Hoskins says: “It’s understandable that with the disruptions and stress of the Covid-19 pandemic parents may not be aware of their children’s immunisation status.

“[But] those that aren’t immunised, whether or not that is by selection or different circumstances, are worst affected by these outbreaks.”

Flu immunisations are free to a number of people, including those aged 65 and over, Māori and Pacific people aged 55 and over and adults with health conditions.

Other places offering free Covid-19, flu and MMR vaccines around Waikato can be found on the DHB’s Facebook page here.

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