The released figure of 784,980 comes during National Immunization Awareness Week, which runs April 22-30.
WATCH: It is National Immunization Awareness Week and the province's chief public health officer says it's important to make sure Manitoba families are keeping up to date on routine vaccines. Interior Health says it delivered nearly 800,000 immunization doses last year — a number almost equal to the region’s population.
The health care organization, which serves a large area of around 820,000, says it’s using the occasion to boost vaccine rates even though there may be post-pandemic vaccine fatigue. “This is a very important initiative because it ensures that communicable diseases stay away from a region,” said Dr. Silvina Mema of Interior Health.Majority of Canadians view measles as dangerous, not everyone in favour of mandatory vaccine: PollBut IHA said immunizations are down from the height of the pandemic, when COVID vaccines were rolled out, though it seems to be on par with previous pre-pandemic years.“Certainly there are some folks who have decided a vaccine is not for them.
“I think there’s a lot of people who are hesitant, but that’s just simply because they have questions.Canada sees dwindling measles vaccines supply “And that’s actually part of what we’re celebrating this week is those public health nurses, those pharmacists, who can answer questions and answer questions with really good information around immunization.”“We take immunization very seriously. It’s a science-based program that has saved countless lives across the world and eliminated diseases that were before a threat and now we don’t see them anymore,” she said.
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