Uganda, May 24 -- Mothers around the country have enjoyed the right and responsibility to protect their children's health and education choices, under the constitution as long as they are still minors. However, recently the Ministry of Health announced a move to take mothers right away in order to vaccinate all school going children with a trial vaccine against Covid-19 without parental consent.
The Minister of Health claims that the law under the Immunisation Act of 2017 allows her to do so, when it requires all children to be denied access to schools if they are not immunised against the six killer diseases. However, it is not true that the Immunisation Act 2017 allows Ministry of Health to adopt Covid's trial vaccines as part of mass im...