The Post looks into why such services at private clinics are popular in the city and how consumers can protect their rights.
1. What is the attraction of prepaid vaccination packages?
Maternal and child health centres under the Department of Health offer local children free vaccines, based on recommendations of the Centre for Health Protection’s scientific committee on vaccine preventable diseases.
The jabs, such as ones against hepatitis B, pneumococcal infection, and a four-in-one vaccine against whooping cough, polio, diphtheria and tetanus, provide protection against major infectious diseases.
An infant will usually receive 14 doses of different vaccines by the time he or she is 18 months old under the service.
But some private clinics offer vaccines against more diseases using a single jab, meaning children undergo fewer shots.
