COSATU calls for an immediate national response to the worrying child immunisation crisis [SOUND]

# Union federation Cosatu is concerned over South Africa’s child immunisation crisis, which the Health Department has declared a public health emergency. The proportion of infants under one year receiving no vaccines has tripled from 12.1-percent in 2017 to 36.3-percent earlier this year, leaving more than one in three babies completely unprotected. Cosatu’s Matthew Parks says the country risks reversing the massive gains made in reducing infant and under-five mortality since 1994: