Saturday adopted Labor at its congress to go in for a trial with a mandatory child immunization in Oslo.
– This was huge says ordførerkandidat Tone Tellevik Dahl (Ap) from Oslo to Aftenposten right after the result of the vote was clear.
She has been a driving force behind the proposal, which goes out on a quest in Oslo where all the vaccines in childhood immunization from 0 to 16 years are required.
But the proposal is already facing opposition by both the Minister of Health and professionals.
Health Minister: – Confidence is important
– I believe that it is important that we base vaccination on trust. I believe that we have such strong arguments against parents that the best they can do for their children is to vaccinate. What is important is that it comes out clearly in the meetings they have on health centers, said health Bent Høie (H) Aftenposten.
Høie stressed that Norway today has a vaccination coverage is good. He believes honest and good information from clinics that reaches out to almost all parents, is the best way to maintain this.
– I’m afraid that if you use the legislation to force, it will provide vaccine opponents a better argument. Moreover, I wonder very much the sanctions Labor envisages that one should use to parents who do not want to vaccinate their children.
– We must use other means
Tone Tellevik Dahl will not speak concretely about what kind of sanctions parents who do not vaccinate their children can count on if the experiment becomes a reality.
– We have to enter into dialogue with health authorities on how to implement this and what may be reasonable sanctions. It is a work that we must begin with now. The important today was to get congress support for such a pilot project, she said.
– Work well in Oslo with information to parents, but all of this work is still not vaccination rate up. Then we must use other means to ensure that children receive the protection they are entitled to.
Dahl explains that the biggest difference, if the experiment becomes a reality, the follow-up of parents.
– It will be like today where you get the notice in the different ages. So it really just following up those who do not arrive, being different. Now the parliamentary group follow this up and prepare a proposal.
Towards the editorial committee
Health Political spokesman Torgeir Micaelsen and a unanimous editorial committee was against the Oslo Aps proposal forced vaccination of children. Few believed that the proposal would have a majority. But Saturday appeared Gro Harlem Brundtland in congress hall and said to VG that it is “very serious” that so many Oslo children not vaccinated.
After this and after active lobbying from Oslo bench ended the fact that 157 voted for the pilot project in Oslo, and 123 against.
Micaelsen told Aftenposten that the argument against is that parents who are already skeptical of vaccination, may be even more afraid of healthcare. Therefore he wanted a system where health should follow up such families actively and inform about the dangers of not vaccinating.
– Our health service is built on voluntary
Pediatrician Per Helge Måseide also disagrees with the proposal. He believes that one should continue to focus on volunteerism.
– It is a bit about that our health care is built on voluntary and informed consent. One should be able to be allowed to go out from the doctor’s office and do something other than what the doctor thinks you should do.
– Besides, it is about trust. It is very important that health is a discussion partner with patients and parents. I believe that such a proposal fast can cause us to be sent in the wrong direction back to a more patriarchal health care, where doctors and health professionals make important choices for people, he said.
Tone Tellevik Dahl points out that all European countries with compulsory vaccination, have higher vaccination rate than Norway. She believes that confidence health authorities in Norway today is good and that this provides a good starting point.
– The good information and good conversation to continue.
– I hope that we get introduced vaccination duty, in the same way as school duty, and that we thus can reach the parents as we do not reach through to today.
– Exceptionally unwise
Medical and general manager of Epidemic Preben Aavitsland, reviewing the proposal as a “extraordinarily unwise proposals.”
– But I excites me not very up over it, because I do not think it will be implemented. Those who have suggested it should have trouble finding some in the academic community that supports it, he said.
Aavitsland mean it in place is far more appropriate to focus more resources on information work and dialogue.– We must work nølerne above objectors.
– In Denmark they had great fine with the sending letters home to parents of unvaccinated children. The simple measure increased turnout by a few percentage points in Denmark. There are many things one can do before starting to force people, he said.
– No contradiction between information and mandatory vaccination
Chief of Staff of Labor in Oslo city council, Silje Grytten mean there is no contradiction between information work and compulsory vaccination.
– The dialogue must be there and the information must be improved. But I think it simply is important to take into consideration the child’s right of parents conviction.
– When this poses a danger that parents do not realize, then society must ask itself what is most important, she says.
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