Mandatory vaccinations for children in kindergarten: can I do without vaccinations in kindergarten?
A child's visit to a kindergarten is not only his communication with peers, but also a clash with the huge and diverse world of microbes and viruses that surround almost every person.
And since the immune system of the baby is still rather weak, it often begins to hurt. It is to strengthen the children's immunity and sent mandatory vaccinations for kindergarten.
List of compulsory vaccinations for kindergarten
The list includes not only those included in the Russian national calendar, but also additional vaccines that can protect the child from other, no less dangerous diseases.
Thus, a child preparing to enter a kindergarten should be made:
- calendar (mandatory) vaccinations - BCG, DTP, from poliomyelitis, rubella, measles, mumps;
- additional - against hemophilia and meningococcal infections (2 months before shipment to kindergarten), against pneumococcal infection (for 1 month) and against influenza (every year in early autumn).
If a youngster who has entered the kindergarten has already turned 2 years old, and he has not yet had chickenpox, then usually demand to supply this vaccine.
Are they admitted to a kindergarten without vaccination?
In accordance with Russian law,parents have the right to decide on their own whether to vaccinate their child. Their absence can only cause a temporary refusal to admit the baby to the kindergarten, if at that time there are massive infectious diseases or there is a risk of epidemics.
In other words, in the kindergarten they have the rightTo refuse admission of not vaccinated child only if there is a threat of an epidemic in the institution. However, despite the legal right of parents to decide independently whether to vaccinate their child, if there is a refusal, the garden, as a rule, tries to avoid taking the baby in any way.
Most often the head of the kindergarten simply does notaccepts a medical card in which there are no vaccination marks. More cautious employees in order to avoid trouble report that there are no seats in the kindergarten.
Moreover, in a polyclinic can not signmedical card is not vaccinated child. And there is a sanitary and epidemiological station, which strictly monitors, that without vaccinations in the preschool institution, no one was accepted.
What should I do if I have not been admitted to kindergarten?
If the district doctor refuses to signmedical card, you should file an application to the head physician of the clinic, indicating in it your next step (in case the issue is not resolved) - an application to the prosecutor's office and a complaint to the Health Department. If, in order to get vaccinated, they refuse to accept signed medications in the kindergarten, the application should be written in the name of the head or the department of education.
When the kindergarten suddenly ended allplaces, in a statement addressed to the head, you need to ask for clarification of why the place for the child was first, and with the emergence of the question about vaccinations suddenly disappeared.
After a written answer about the absence of seats in the appropriate age group, no one will be able to accept or will be forced to first notify the applicant that the place has appeared.
Also in the absence of seats, it is recommendedcontact the local pre-school education department. All of the foregoing is in no way a call to prevent preventive vaccinations for children.
But if parents do not want to vaccinate their child due to certain circumstances or contraindications, this should not be a reason for violation of his constitutional rights.
Author: Katerina Sergeenko
