The Administrative Court Number 5 in Granada has acceded to the request by the Department of Health to vaccinate 35 children against measles following an outbreak earlier this month at a school in the city.
The outbreak has so far affected 43 children, 14 of whom required hospital treatment at some time with three of them still in hospital.
The request to the court by the Department of Health was made because vaccination against measles is voluntary and several parents had refused to have their children vaccinated. Many others had not replied to a Department of Health letter regarding vaccinations, deemed necessary to curb the outbreak.
The court acceded to the request, allowing vaccinations to take place at the school, in clinics or at the homes of children but with the proviso that it must be undertaken ‘without any kind of inhuman or degrading treatment’.