DH reacts to media queries relating to Vaccination Subsidy Scheme authorization types
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In action to media questions concerning online reports declaring that the authorization kind for the Vaccination Subsidy Scheme (VSS) includes covert information which the physical condition of people getting seasonal influenza vaccines may be consisted of in organ contribution matching or associated research study, the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health (DH) today (September 30) emphatically rejected such claims and supplied the list below action:
The claims are entirely unproven. Members of the general public need to not be misguided.
The 2025/26 Seasonal Influenza Vaccination (SIV) Programmes consists of 4 programs, particularly Government Vaccination Programme, Residential Care Home Vaccination Programme, Seasonal Influenza Vaccination School Outreach Programme and VSS. Qualified high-risk groups typically require to finish an approval type before getting totally free or subsidised SIV through the programs. The approval type defines that the info offered might be moved to personal medical professionals, the Primary Healthcare Commission, the Hospital Authority, the Government’s representatives and 15 healthcare-related statutory Boards and Councils that the DH offers secretariat assistance to. In the past, the approval types of the SIV Programmes likewise specified that the Government may, when needed, supply individual information gotten to other organisations (consisting of the previously mentioned 15 healthcare-related statutory Boards and Council for which the DH supplies secretariat assistance) for the functions of individual information collection specified in the authorization kind. These arrangements make sure that the DH can quickly and efficiently examine any unusual unfavorable occasions that might take place throughout the SIV programs, such as making it possible for the pertinent bodies to examine major medical occurrences including vaccine receivers. The DH will never ever utilize the info for organ contribution or research study on donor-recipient matching. Both paper and electronic authorization types are usually ruined within 7 years. The DH does not maintain the pertinent individual information either. This practice completely abides by appropriate laws and requirements for safeguarding individual information personal privacy.
The CHP advised the general public not to be reluctant about getting SIV due to rumours. The CHP worried that vaccination has actually been clinically shown to be among the most efficient methods to avoid seasonal influenza and its problems. It likewise decreases the dangers of in-patient admission and death due to seasonal influenza. All members of the general public aged 6 months or above, other than those with recognized contraindications, ought to get SIV every year for individual security. As the stating goes, ‘get immunized when a year and quicker is much better than later on’.
For more details on the government-subsidised SIV Programmes, please call the CHP at 2125 2125 or check out the site.