Mahanandan Super Speciality Hospital

As a paediatrician, one of my most important responsibilities is to guide parents in protecting their children’s health. Among all preventive measures available today, immunization remains one of the safest, most effective, and most impactful interventions in modern medicine. Childhood vaccines have saved millions of lives worldwide and continue to protect children from serious illness, disability, and death. What is immunization and why is it essential? Immunization helps a child’s immune system recognize and fight dangerous infections by safely exposing it to weakened or inactive parts of germs. This allows the body to build protection without causing the disease itself. Before vaccines were widely used, diseases such as measles, polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, tuberculosis, and hepatitis were common and often fatal. Today, many of these diseases are rare—but they still exist and can return if vaccination rates fall. Children are most vulnerable to infections in the ...