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Public Health makes new reporting requirement for vaccines

Back to school is this week and the Ministry of Health want parents to keep in mind the importance of immunization for their children.

The Ministry has made it mandatory to report their child’s immunization records. Most parents will be able to check their records before the end of the month at immunizebc.ca.

The new reporting requirement will increase the ability of public health to respond during an outbreak by having the immunization records readily available.

Rakel Kling, Medical Health Officer with Northern Health said the immunization reporting requirement will give health officials valuable information.

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“We’ll be able to educate students appropriately and educate families. This program also provides not only to understand who might be at risk contracting communicable diseases in an outbreak but it also helps us be able to talk to families more readily about vaccines,” said Kling.

Kling also said where students and parents can go to get vaccinated.

“There are local public health units in communities is probably the first place to turn and as part of this campaign our nurses will be going into schools to offer vaccines as part of the usual kindergarten, grade 6 and 9 campaign,” said Kling.

Public Health will be reviewing records for completeness of vaccines over the next year. They will be contacting parents if students are missing any vaccines or vaccine records.

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Lindsay Newman
Lindsay Newman
News Reporter Lindsay joined the MyBulkleyLakesNow news team in 2019. She was born and raised in Cambridge, Ontario where she then moved to Toronto to complete Journalism school at Humber College where she graduated in 2017. Lindsay started her news journey at 680 News- Toronto's largest talk radio station. Lindsay then moved on to 680 News, where she was an audio editor. She has always loved the idea of living in British Columbia since she was a teenager and was excited to make the to move out to Smithers, BC to branch out her journalism skills. In Lindsay's spare time she is usually relaxing with her two cats and in the warmer months going on hikes with her friends and partner.

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