' Babies should be vaccinated against rotavirus '

Annually about 5,000 young children end up in the hospital with the virus that causes severe diarrhea. Per year, an average of six or seven children.

In 2010, a majority of the Health Council for inclusion of the rota vaccine in the national immunization programme. The members who were against vaccination, the disease is not serious enough. Most children also hold after hospital stay nothing over to rota, and add a new vaccine is expensive.

The President of the Commission, the opinion of the majority not by pressing. "After discussion between the Ministry and the Health Council is the report in a desk drawer disappeared", says emeritus professor of Paediatrics Ronald de Groot in the newspaper, which long time was a member of the advisory body for the Government.

Other countries the World Health Organization (WHO) advises all countries since 2009 at the rota vaccine in their vaccination program. Countries such as Belgium, Germany, England, Finland, Norway and the US to vaccinate children against the virus. Minister of health, the Health Council of the Netherlands last summer still asked for an opinion.

Several experts suggest in the people newspaper in Netherlands that we are lagging behind. According to a pediatrician of the UMC Utrecht questions parents and doctors wonder why everyone children inoculates, except us.

Professor Dan says we Dutch children. "I wonder why six or seven dead children per year are not enough. We are dozens of dead children and thousands of hospitalizations further, that might have been prevented. "

By the editors NOS: Photo: REUTERS