The Senate tries to vote on the project for vaccination in schools, but pocket supporters ask for a postponement

The Social Affairs Commission (CAS) of the Federal Senate has postponed the vote on the bill (PL) establishing the national vaccination program in public schools until next Wednesday, the 29th, at 9 am. Initially the proposal would have been analyzed on Tuesday 28th, but some parliamentarians do not agree with the fourth article of the initiative, since according to them the text would favor compulsory vaccination against the coronavirus.

The rapporteur of PL 826/2019, Senator Humberto Costa (PT-PE), suggested that peers could make some changes to the original proposal sent by the Chamber of Deputies. These changes, according to Humberto, can be accepted to speed up the approval of the matter.

For the rapporteur, the project, presented by the current Bolsonaro MP Domingos Sávio (PL-MG), does not even deal with Covid-19, since it was created in 2019, the year in which the disease had not even been detected. Humberto also highlights that the initiative aims to raise awareness among those responsible about the importance of vaccination against various types of diseases.

Cause of all the controversy, article four states that, five days after vaccination at the school unit, education professionals must send the health unit a list of all students who have not received the vaccination. The survey must contain, in addition to the names of the children and young people, also the address and data of those responsible. If they do not report to the health authority within 30 days of the announcement, health workers will have to go to the student’s home with the aim of raising awareness of the importance of being up to date with vaccinations.

One of those calling for this article to be changed is Senator Dr. Hiran (PP-RR). According to him, changing this part of the project would facilitate the approval of the issue by the Commission. “Vaccination saves lives. Ill-informed people say that vaccination is harmful. Vaccines are a heritage of humanity. There is a surplus of vaccines in Brazil, because today we have poor health education, which does not actually reach the people effectively to convince them of the importance of vaccination,” he said.

According to Senator Eduardo Girão (Novo-CE), there is disagreement among scientists on vaccination against Covid. “Nowhere in the world is it mandatory, and the project punishes it to intimidate parents,” he says. The parliamentarian also proposed, during the session, holding a public hearing to discuss the content of the text. This suggestion was not followed by the rapporteur, who suggested that Girão present the proposal at the hearing at the Education Commission (EC), where the text will be elaborated after examination by the CAS.

Another parliamentarian against the initiative is Senator Magno Malta (PL-ES) who stated that “vaccination against Covid in children can cause comorbidities”, which are not described by the medical community.

Brazenly opposed to anti-vaccine theses, Senator Zenaide Maia (PSD-RN), a medical graduate, defended the project. “Vaccines have no party, they have no color and they do not belong to the government, but to the State, which has the obligation to demonstrate that vaccination saves human lives,” she said.

Source: Terra

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