Due to the whooping cough boom, calls began to be heard for unvaccinated children not to be admitted to schools.
"There are such children, it is with the knowledge of parents, of their doctors. The choice is the parents', the children cannot make a decision. In such a case, and at the moment, according to the current legal basis, parents can refuse the mandatory vaccines, which are not compulsory. I have a family, a mixed marriage of a Bulgarian man with a foreign woman, the parents signed. If they do not sign - the vaccine refusal is sent to the Regional Health Inspection and from there an administrative and criminal authority applies the sanctions provided for in the Health Law. They are only financial sanctions, there is no planned denial of access to education, health care.
This is what the general practitioner Dr. Georgi Mindov commented in the studio of "Denyat ON AIR".
He specified that among the documented unvaccinated children, there are those who are abroad, where they have probably been vaccinated, but in our country unvaccinated are taken.
"I have never had so many cases with chicken pox and whooping cough in my practice. And I start to wonder what is happening, what is the connection with Covid-19. Didn't Covid erase our immunity to these vaccine-preventable diseases to which we had group immunity", the general practitioner also said.
Before Bulgaria ON AIR, he added that at the moment there is a boom in everything - doctors are crowded with patients with viral infections as if it were winter.
"PCR tests for whooping cough are expensive, people can't afford them. It starts like a simple viral infection, especially now with this humidity. We are waiting for the sun and fresh air, which is recommended. Collective immunity fell, we are one of the countries with the least vaccinated population, I can't say whether it matters", added Dr. Mindov.