What parents can do best for their children. They can offer
the best place to live – a good house, best clothes to wear, best meal to eat,
best health insurance policy for their future security, best TV, Smartphone and
other gazette for their entertainment, as per their affordability. They can buy
the best medicine in case of sickness. Is it enough?
No!!! It’s not enough
until unless they ensure the good health and protection from the most common
and preventable diseases.
Then what parents should do?
Vaccination, yes vaccination is the right answer. This is
the only way to protect the beloved kids from most of the dangerous endemic
diseases eg. Poliomyelitis, Measles, Pneumonia, Meningitis, Tetanus,
Diphtheria, Pertusis, Hepatitis, Tuberculosis and many more. Immunizations can
save the child’s life and ensure the protection from specific diseases and its
potential complications.
Vaccine is very cost effective. Imagine the condition that an
8 year old child admitted in the hospital with Measles infection, later he
developed Pneumonia and ear infection with dehydration and electrolyte
imbalance. Due to these complications
he had to stay in the hospital for 10 days ant its costs to parents about Rs
50000 and 2 week drop out from the school. All these happens due to a little
but lethal mistake – the child was not vaccinated with Measles vaccine. In
private health care sector the cost of complete vaccination is approximate
20000 to 25000, that is nothing as compare to cost of the treatment. These
vaccines are freely available in government health sectors with highest quality
and potency. All vaccines has excellent safety record. Another beauty of
vaccinations is that, vaccine can protect to the unvaccinated people by
producing herd immunity.
For further detail about vaccination, please contact to
nearest government health facilities or your family physician. Wish you all a
very good health.
By Dr Shekhawat Singh Bhartiy, MD
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