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Published Date: 2011-10-28 16:28:18
Subject: Outbreak of whooping cough - Ukraine (Kiev)
Archive Number: 20111028.136348
The outbreak of whooping cough - Ukraine (Kiev)
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Date: October 28, 2011
From: ProMED-mail Val VM (translated from Ukrainian).
Source: podrobnosti.ua, October 27, 2011 [edited]
In Ukraine, frequent pertussis
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Whooping cough occurs. Several times increase in the number of Ukrainian children contracted the infection. A similar
situation is observed in almost all regions of the country. More likely to get sick children to a year, which did not
vaccinated. Epidemiologists say a surge of whooping cough is directly related to disruptions in the supply of vaccines. In
Ministry of Health with this position do not agree. In the situation of our correspondents versed.
In infectious disease department of Ivano-Frankivsk hospital now three children diagnosed with whooping cough. All - to
year.
Svetlana Ignatovskaya, regional freelance children's infectious diseases:
- Well, now the children are stable. A child admitted to the intensive care unit, was
respiratory arrest, apnea, and so the child is supervised.
Such patients are more and more, doctors say. And not only in Ivano-Frankivsk.
Ina Beletskaya, reporter:
- This is a major infectious disease clinic in Rivne region. It brought kids with the most severe
forms of childhood diseases. This year, whooping cough is treated with 50 young patients.
Oksana Kozak for several days without sleep. Her three sons David, who was not vaccinated against
pertussis was respiratory arrest. Moreover, infected all her eight children.
Oksana Kozak, the mother of a sick boy
- As someone who tolerates those who are heavier than those who like.
Hope Sidoruk, head of the department of infectious Rivne BTF:
- Mostly children are ill are not vaccinated or vaccinated in full. Children up to the year in which
there is no vaccine, suffer heavier - they have a severe course of disease with a variety of
complications, particularly severe pneumonia.
It is because of such complications in the Rivne region this year, two kids died. An increasing number of
patients and in Lutsk. Here in 2011 pertussis laid in a hospital bed five times smaller
patients than in the 2010th. This year, the city provided a pertussis vaccine only to the forty
percent.
Novachevskaya Valentine, Head of the Epidemiology Unit of Lutsk City sanitation center:
- Flashes, group of diseases, yet today epidoslozhneny not, but this growth is taking place against the background
that reduced coverage to be children. If in the past been the cause of failure of parents
vaccination, but now to the fore an unstable supply of vaccine.
Refrigerators for vaccines in the regions have been empty for several months. But the Ministry of Health
increase in the incidence explain otherwise.
Sergei Kramarev, infectious disease chief of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine:
- Over the past year, two major climbs, and for years, believing it, we are third ascent of the disease. I
I think this is more due to the fact that they began to be ill adults in Europe and adolescents who have
sufficient immunity.
In State sanepidsluzhbe assure that needed vaccines in regions already received. And the promise in the near future
time to raise the collective immunity of Ukrainian children.
Anatoly Ponomarenko, head of the State sanepidemsluzhby Ukraine's chief sanitary doctor of Ukraine:
- We will in the near future, say, a deficiency of this work to cover. Two months of hard work will
us to align performance and to raise them.
While the metropolitan officials ponder: how quickly instill the kids, infectious disease physicians have
fight for the lives of young unvaccinated patients.
[Comment Cor. VMs. In the past 2 years the vaccine for children in children's medical ukranskie
institutions were supplied very irregularly and in insufficient quantities. This was associated with mistakes in
procurement planning, outright sabotage of the procedure of tender procurement firms - the same
favorites of tenders for procurement of vaccines, which in previous years, made extensive use of corrupt schemes and
thus were able to rob the country's budget for $ 60 million. Director of the company "Ukrvaktsina" detained and
is under investigation. Irregular use of the vaccine for children parivivork because of its
short supply by the state, in the end brings far greater harm than the failure of parents to vaccinate.
And the situation with vaccines in 2011 in Ukraine was so difficult that parents wishing to instill
their children against diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus were not able to even do it in private klinikah.Segodnya Ministry of Health reports a 100% coverage needs of children
population in the necessary vaccines, but the media published many reports, that's not all
regions of the country had access to the vaccine in the requested quantities. All these causes in
combined with the seasonal rise of pertussis and the possible facts of importation from the territory
EU has led to an increase in the number of cases of pertussis is not only young children but also among students, and
even in adolescents and adults who have lost over the years your immunity to infection. The real solution
this problem would be the vaccination of adolescents and adults weakened cell pertussis vaccine,
diphtheria and tetanus. Such vaccines are already successfully used in adults abroad, but in Ukraine
they are not registered. - Corr. VM]