CONCERN OVER FAILURE TO GIVE BCG VACCINE IN GALWAY SCHOOLS

Date Published: 26-Jun-2008

Concern is being expressed about the failure to immunise students at a County Galway school against Tuberculosis.Senator Fidelma Healy Eames says 6th class students at LisheenKyle National School have not been given the BCG vaccination for the past 3 years.The Fine Gael Senator says she contacted the HSE, which said the vaccine would be given to the children before the end of the school year.However, as the school closes tomorrow [27/6], she says the children have still not been vaccinated.Senator Healy Eames is concerned that this is happening in other schools across Galway as well.