Health Benefits of Immunization

Immunization is a scientific means of making children resist deadly or killer-diseases thereby keep children alive and healthy. Scientist has succeeded in getting vaccines or chemical substances which can be injected to a person’s body to act as a protection against diseases. About 15 (fifteen) years ago a lot of infants who were not vaccinated or immunized has died as a result of the attack of whooping cough, measles, diphtheria, smallpox and chickenpox in my state.

A good number of children who survived were those whose parents took nice decision to inoculate. Most parents, who tried to thwart the altruistic efforts of the health officials, lived to regret their actions. While children who were inoculated lived, their own children died in dozen. According to UNICEF, immunization saves up to 3 (three) million children each year. Vaccines keep children alive and healthy by protecting them against diseases. It is one of the most successful and cost-effective public health investments.

 Children who are timely and properly immunized can enjoy good years in their infant years. This makes child bearing and rearing less cumbersome if not totally without tears. Vaccinated children grow up to healthy adults. Their growth is not impaired or stunted by measles or any of those debilitating diseases; some of the diseases are capable of impairing the part of a human brain of the children. Access to this health care program for children will go a long way in preventing diseases that can serve as an embargo to the physical and mental growth of children. Another significance of immunization is that it gives the society the assurance that her young ones will soon grow up to replenish the labor force which old age and retirement of the adult persons deplete. A society whose young population is seriously threatened by widespread and unchecked killer-diseases is doomed for so many reasons.