“Coalition by Vaccination “It is a Dominican initiative that arises from the board of directors of the Dominican Vaccinology Society (SDV) in the person of its president, the distinguished pediatrician Dr. José Brea Del Castillo, an expert in vaccines and past president of the Dominican Society of Pediatrics. Initiative that has been motivated by the decline in all vaccinations in the DR and in the rest of the world, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Coalitionseeks to integrate the largest number of actors that have to do with the prevention of immunopreventable diseases: Ministry of Health Public, National Congress, schools, colleges, universities and their medical schools, hospitals, opinion leaders and national and international organizations that in some way influence the policies of Health public in our country.
In this line, recently, the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) hosted this initiative at its CSD School of Medicine, with the “International Day for the Vaccination”, in which all the sectors, personalities and national and international organizations that were summoned participated, and which included the medical students of their school, to create awareness in them regarding this important issue.
On the other hand, it must be said that the DR still does not have a “Law of Vaccines” a tool that already exists in most of the most developed countries and in others very similar to ours. However, a vaccine law has already been approved in the Senate, in the National Congress, which awaits approval in the Chamber of Deputies before being sent to the Executive Power for promulgation.
With this law, it is expected that the Expanded Immunization Program (PAI) will have an allocation in the nation’s budget that guarantees the necessary funds for a vaccination for all. that the primer vaccines be a digital, electronic and unique tool, and that the most humble and vulnerable child and adult have the same tools within their reach vaccines received by the child and the adult of the highest socio-economic level. While acknowledging that, in recent times, from the Ministry of Health Public, great efforts have been made and new vaccines to the official immunization record.
The vaccine law also provides for the creation of a “Permanent and Independent Advisory Committee of Experts on Vaccines”, so that the decision to vaccinate, when and how to do it, does not depend on the good will of some people. These are some of the guidelines of this law. An instrument that we should soon have as a demonstration that Dominicans, when WE WANT, WE CAN.