Doctor Mihai Craiu, one of the most respected pediatricians in Romania, notes with concern that, in our country, children receive vaccines less often than other children in the EU, but “benefit” from impressive amounts of antibiotics, prescribed without solid evidence or completely erroneous.
Child sick with measles PHOTO: SHUTERSTOCK
“After a typical guard in the days around the holidays I'm thinking how much we've all failed in prevention strategies… Maybe I'm just tired after a sleepless night?!? I am specifically referring to the strategies aimed at preventing acute infections in children, in the last three decades”writes Dr. Mihai Craiu, primary pediatrician at the “Alessandrescu-Rusescu” Mother and Child Health Institute in Bucharest, on his Virtual Children's Hospital Facebook page.
According to the renowned pediatrician, almost all serious cases, hospitalized during the guard of May 7, 2024, were generated by pathogens that produce infections preventable by vaccination or by other specific means. “It seems that in Romania almost no one learns anything even
“A simple analysis of the situation in the pediatric departments of the university clinics of our country shows that the acute febrile illnesses of hospitalized children are caused by rotavirus, pneumococcus, Haemophillus influenzae, Bodetella or VSR (respiratory syncytial virus). Romanian children receive vaccines less often than other children in the EU, but
There would be solutions, the doctor claims. “If only they would understand that it is
