Parents cannot afford to be complacent about their children’s immunisations, a Wyndham health group has warned.
As reported by the Weekly, latest figures reveal that 91.9 per cent of five-year-olds living in Wyndham are fully immunised, while 89.3 per cent of children aged 12 to 15 months have been vaccinated.
South Western Melbourne Medicare Local plans to boost immunisation rates in the city by creating nurse-led immunisation clinics, which will allow more patients to receive vaccinations and provide better education.
The organisation is also sponsoring 10 nurses on an immunisation course at the Australian College of Nursing.
“We can’t afford to be complacent, as a recent measles outbreak has demonstrated,’’ chief operating officer Linda Kensington said.
‘‘Vaccine-preventable diseases can have devastating consequences.”
