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ROME, 05 JUL (ANSA) – Italian Health Minister Giulia Grillo announced Thursday that she was pregnant and was going to vaccinate her child. The statement, which may seem obvious to many, acquires a political positioning character in a country that hosts major anti-vaccination movements.
"I'm waiting for a child and I'm going to vaccinate him," said Grillo, two weeks after his colleague, Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, said that 10 compulsory vaccines for school-aged children are "useless" and even "dangerous".
Grillo, however, is against the requirement that children be vaccinated in time to enter the school, established by the previous government, of Paolo Gentiloni. For this reason, he has presented a change that, although he officially maintains the mandatory character, in practice he is emptying the current law.
To obtain the presence of their children in the schools, the parents can present a "self-certification", instead of the proof issued by the Local Health Society (ASL), as provided by the legislation.
At a press conference in Rome, the Minister of Health asked families not to submit false evidence. "If a parent has legitimate questions, just look for the ministry to get clarification, the way forward is the right information, knowing that vaccines are important," he said.
In the coming days, he must introduce a bill to be debated in Parliament for "flex" the attorney.
Currently, vaccines required in Italy protect against poliomyelitis, diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis B, whooping cough, measles, mumps, chickenpox, rubella and Haemophilus influenzae type b, which cause among other things bacterial meningitis. (ANSA)
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