MEASLES VACCINATION IN TUBURAN PUSHED

Move of the Cebu Provincial Government came after a baby died after contracting measles from her mother. DOH, Capitol to come up with a master list of children ages six months and above in Tuburan who need to be vaccinated.

The Cebu Provincial Health Office (PHO) confirmed yesterday that a three-month-old baby girl from Tuburan town died of measles last month.

With this, PHO head Dr. Rene Catan said that children who are six to eight months and older in Tuburan will be vaccinated against measles for their protection.

Catan told reporters that the baby girl, a resident of Barangay Potat, was admitted in the Tuburan District Hospital last March 27 after contracting measles from her 23-year-old mother.

The two were showing symptoms of measles.

Last March 28, the mother and daughter were brought to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City after their condition worsened.

The three-month-old baby, however, died that day, Catan said.

Based on their investigation, the mother had never been vaccinated against measles when she was a child.

Following the incident, the Department of Health, in coordination with PHO, will come up with a master list of all children ages six months and older in Tuburan for the immediate release of measles vaccines.

Catan urged parents to have their children vaccinated to build “herd immunity.”

Earlier, DOH 7 reported that 131 people in Central Visayas have been infected with measles since the start of the year.

Of the number, 14 are from Cebu while the rest are from Negros Oriental. /