What medical professionals say: Will vaccination of children aged 12 to 16 start in Serbia?

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After the US Food and Drug Administration, the European Medicines Agency also gave the green light to the Pfizer vaccine for immunization of children aged 12 to 16.

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The head of the KBC Children's Clinic Dr Dragisa Misovic, Dr. Olivera Ostojic, says that pediatricians are always in favor of vaccination.

The decision to vaccinate children aged 12 to 16 is also being considered in Serbia. As we have learned, yesterday, the company Pfizer submitted a request to our Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices.

Dr. Olivera Ostojic told RTS that pediatricians are always in favor of immunizing children.

"We know very well that in the obligatory vaccination calendar there are vaccines against diseases that had complications that are sometimes deadly, and they have been eradicated, and thanks to them we have healthy children," said Ostojic.

She stressed that the pediatric stance is to vaccinate against everything that can disrupt the quality of life, growth and development of our children.

"We are absolutely in favor of vaccinating children who are 16, the most severe clinical pictures happened at that age, they move around the most and are the most social," adds Ostojic.

"And also when it comes the age of 12 up, that vaccine should be considered, because those children are also endangered and are carriers of the infection. We have seen that the vaccine is both safe and secure and that there are no complications other than some local reactions that are normal after any vaccination. Pediatricians are always in favor of immunization," the doctor says.

She also stated that they have not had patients in the Children's Covid Hospital in the KBC Dr. Dragisa Misovic for a week.

"We have no new admissions, we discharged patients, a few days ago the last patient left, a baby from Novi Pazar," says Ostojic.

She stresses that they have good organization in two separate buildings, so they started taking care of non-Covid patients.

"In one part, we opened the outpatient clinics, and now we usually get post-Covid patients. We examine them there, we do some laboratory analyses, X-rays of the lungs, spirometry to see what happens to children after the Covid infection," the doctor concluded.

(Telegraf.rs)