The Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association (IPHA) welcomes the announcement this morning by the Health Service Executive (HSE) that it has added an enhanced pneumococcal vaccine (PCV) to the childhood immunisation programme.
The addition of this new vaccine to the childhood immunisation programme means that Irish children are now less likely to get the life-threatening illness, meningitis. Irish children are now protected against a total of 12 infectious agents under the current national vaccination programme.