Several hundred people demonstrated on Saturday in Izvor Park in Bucharest, in protest against mandatory vaccination.
Several hundred people demonstrated on Saturday in Izvor Park in Bucharest, in protest against mandatory vaccination.
People have expressed their displeasure, arguing that they shouldn’t be forced to vaccinate their children:
-: I came because I disagree with the mandatory vaccination law. Therefore, anyone who wants to vaccinate is free to do so. We disagree. It does not seem normal to me that we should be obliged, as long as there are risks. Yes, if there were no risks, it is the problem of those who want to vaccinate.
Reporter: Why did you come to this protest?
-: To be able to decide what everyone wants for their health, not to be forced to do something with which … we agree or disagree. So, against obligation.
-: Really, I want me to decide, especially because I’m healthy. Why should I do anything to introduce a virus into my body, even if it says that …? I don’t want, I don’t want to have it in my body.
Author: The mandatory vaccination bill was voted on by the Senate, and to come into force it must also be voted on by the Chamber of Deputies.
According to the project, parents who refuse to vaccinate their children can be fined up to 10,000 lei. At the same time, unvaccinated children will not be able to be enrolled in collectives, unless later, according to a specific calendar, they have the compulsory vaccinations.
The responsibility for introducing children to vaccination rests with the parents, legal representatives or persons who raise and care for the children, on the basis of a social protection measure. The coordinator of the vaccinology group within the National Society of Family Medicine, Gindrovel Dumitra.
Gindrovel Dumitra: This additional provision has been brought to the Senate that yes, you as a parent have the right to refuse vaccination, until you enter the community, but you are responsible if someone suffers because of your decision. Response including criminal charges. If a child develops the disease but is cured, he instead passes it on to another person who dies, and recently we had the example of the nurse from Braşov who, tragically, at work, met a child whose parent decided not to vaccinate for him, this chain entails a great responsibility on the part of the parent, that is the spread of infectious-contagious diseases, foreseen by the penal code.
Producer: Radio Romania conducted, in July this year, a large campaign to inform parents about vaccinations and their impact on public health, entitled “Vaccine for life”.
