AN OFFICIAL of the Department of Health (DOH) announced that they are hiring nurses to monitor hospitals of patients admitted due to drastic reaction of Dengvaxia vaccines.
DOH Assistant Regional Director Joshua Brillantes said the nurses will be assigned to conduct surveillance on hospital in each of the provinces and city in the region.
Brillantes said they will coordinate with the hospitals in the region for a speedy monitoring of Dengvaxia patients.
He revealed they received reports that there are physicians in private practice have injected the vaccine to their patients although the region was not included in the program of Dengvaxia mass vaccination.
In this city, the City Health Office earlier reported that there were four children injected with Dengvaxia vaccine by private pediatricians.
Brillantes said these surveillance nurses will be employed for five years since children injected with Dengvaxia vaccines will have to be monitored for a period of five years.
Dengvaxia, manufactured by French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi, has been granted marketing authorization in 2015 by Mexico making it the first vaccine to be licensed in the world for dengue prevention.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued licenses and approved its use in the country.
But the DOH suspended the dengue vaccination program after it was reported that Dengvaxia could develop complications to children who has not yet suffered dengue. (VoxPop Philippines)
