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Students to be suspended
over incomplete vaccinations
Marco Vigliotti
Postmedia Network
About 300 to 400 Huron
County students could be sus-
pended from school next
month if they fail to provide
proof they have been
vaccinated.
Huron County's Health Unit
says it plans to start distributing
suspension notices on May 8 to
students who did not respond
to a second notice issued earlier
this year warning that their
immunizations records were
not up to date.
Families who have received
notices are asked to call the
county health body at 1-877-
837-6143 ext. 2025.
If families don't provide
proof of immunization or a
valid exemption for their child,
the student maybe suspended
effective May 26 for up to 20
school days, the health unit
warns.
"Parents are busy and kids
need to go to school, which is
why we work with parents to
update records and arrange
immunizations," Christina Tay-
lor, the county's public health
manager, said in a prepared
statement. "One phone call is
the key to resolving the issue"
Under the Immunization of
School Pupils Act, Ontario stu-
dents are required to be vacci-
nated against several infectious
diseases in order to attend
school, including diphtheria,
tetanus, polio, measles, mumps
and rubella. The health unit
says it annually reviews immu-
nization records for students
attending school, sending out
first notices in January and sec-
ond warnings in March.
Taylor said the 300 to 400 fig-
ure is an estimate of the num-
ber of student records the unit
has with missing information.
It is an unusually high figure
compared to previous years,
she said, attributing the
increase to changes in provin-
cial legislation requiring junior
kindergarten students to be
vaccinated against the chicken
pox and making the meningo-
coccal and whooping cough
vaccines mandatory for most
students.
"These changes, along with
our modified suspension
review last year, mean more
records than in past years are
considered incomplete," Taylor
explained.
She said the health unit tries
its best to "get students off the
suspension list whenever possi-
ble" by working with parents or
guardians who contact them to
update their child's record or
arrange immunizations:'
"We will work with the prin-
cipals of the school to contact
parents during the month of
May," Taylor added. "When the
Health Unit, school principals
and parents work together to
establish a plan to get the stu-
dent's record updated we can
successfully prevent a
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