What happens when your children don’t get vaccinated?

Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor Khan said her two-year-old son Taimur Ali Khan is going through the process of vaccination. Herself being a mother, the actor wants to make sure that every child in the country gets vaccinated regularly. The actress, however, said that female literacy is particularly important in spreading awareness about the initiative of child vaccination in the most impactful way.

Kareena, who was earlier named as the brand ambassador of the Swasth Immunised India campaign, stressed on the need to create awareness among parents about child vaccination to help prevent the future generation from life-threatening diseases. “This is a special and personal project for me because I am also a young mother and Taimur is going through the process of vaccination. But at the same time, I would also like to mention that female literacy is equally important to get success in this campaign,” the actress said at the launch of Swasth Immunised India in Mumbai.

What happens when your children don’t get vaccinated?
Health officials have expressed concerns over the resurgence of diseases such as measles and chicken pox because of an increasing number of parents who opt out of vaccinating their child. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), immunisation is a proven tool that helps control and eliminate life-threatening infectious diseases. Immunisation is estimated to avert between 2 and 3 million deaths each year.


Figures available with the Union Ministry of Health revealed that India has a vaccination cover of about 70 percent, however, the diphtheria outbreak in several northern states last year highlighted the gaps in vaccination coverage. Read -

Vaccination is a simple yet effective way of protecting children from serious diseases. It also helps protect the broader community by minimising the spread of disease. Vaccines, which works by triggering the immune system to fight against certain diseases, protect children who are immunised and people close to them by preventing the spread of the disease. Some of the diseases that can be prevented by vaccines include cervical cancer, diphtheria, hepatitis B, measles, mumps, pertussis (whooping cough), pneumonia, polio, rotavirus diarrhoea, rubella and tetanus.

Parents who choose to delay some vaccines, or reject some vaccines entirely, may be putting their children’s health at risk. Parents can help make their children healthier than was ever possible in earlier generations by following the immunisation guidelines recommended by their child’s Pediatrician.