Vasile Valeriu Lupu
Pediatrics Department, Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Romania
Title: Children Vaccination: Personal Choice Or Civic Obligation
Biography
Biography: Vasile Valeriu Lupu
Abstract
One of the greatest achievements of medicine was the discovery and introduction of vaccination for all major contagious diseases. Romania was one of the countries that have contributed to the development of vaccinology.
Currently, one of the most intensely debated issues is related to a person's right to accept or not vaccination. The patient can be put in different situations, which is why the authors discuss these issues. Given that it is easier and cheaper to prevent than to cure, through vaccination this goal can be achieved. The compulsory vaccins should meet the necessary criteria of mandatory and optional ones remain at the discretion of the patient or legal caregivers. The current actualities of vaccinology are analyzed as regards to the progress and drawbacks generated by the disappearance of the autochthonous production of vaccines, as well as the increase in the population’s distrust regarding the value of vaccination, from the perspective of civic and professional ethics and from the perspective of the involvement of the medical system.
Facing the major risks that an epidemic outbreak represents, general interest prevails, because ultimately, the freedom and security of any person ceases where it affects another person's freedom and security.