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Source: www.balkaninsight.com
Health Minister Bujar Osmani will mark the start of the campaign by getting immunized at the City Health Protection Bureau. Vaccination is free of charge and will be carried out in public health centers throughout the country.
The vaccination is being conducted after an additional 20,000 swine flu "Baxter" vaccines arrived in Macedonia on Thursday. Some 5,000 vaccines, donated by Turkey, were used for immunising doctors and nurses.
Although the World Health Organization has confirmed that the vaccines are perfectly safe, immunisation is clouded by controversy in Macedonia. Media reported that many doctors have refused to take the shot in fear of complications, accompanied by a wide spread uncertainty among the wider population.
The government has launched a media campaign to convince people that the shot is safe.
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