The Ministry of Health and the General Directorate of Migration in Costa Rica are working on the requirements to begin implementing a regulation for foreigners requesting their residence in the country to comply with the national vaccination program starting July 2019.
According to Rodrigo Marín, director of Health Surveillance, every year the Migration office in Costa Rica receives anywhere between 14 thousand to 20 thousand requests for permanent residence, and the purpose is to respect human rights and also complying the General Health Law on this topic.
Costa Rica’s vaccination program consists of 17 vaccines including, among others, those meant to prevent measles, mumps, rubella, Hepatitis B, influenza, and even HPV.
This decision comes after Costa Rica registered several cases of imported measles. Back in March four of nine children of a US family living in Cabuya, Cóbano, Puntarenas, tested positive for measles. None of the 9 children (aged between 1 and 17) had received any vaccines.
Costa Rica has not presented native cases of measles since 2006 and the last time an imported case was reported was in 2014.
Over 7,000 cases of measles were reported in the American continent last year, the number of patients in the United States and Latin America has increased considerably in the past year.
According to Rodrigo Marín, director of Health Surveillance, every year the Migration office in Costa Rica receives anywhere between 14 thousand to 20 thousand requests for permanent residence, and the purpose is to respect human rights and also complying the General Health Law on this topic.
Costa Rica’s vaccination program consists of 17 vaccines including, among others, those meant to prevent measles, mumps, rubella, Hepatitis B, influenza, and even HPV.
This decision comes after Costa Rica registered several cases of imported measles. Back in March four of nine children of a US family living in Cabuya, Cóbano, Puntarenas, tested positive for measles. None of the 9 children (aged between 1 and 17) had received any vaccines.
Costa Rica has not presented native cases of measles since 2006 and the last time an imported case was reported was in 2014.
Over 7,000 cases of measles were reported in the American continent last year, the number of patients in the United States and Latin America has increased considerably in the past year.
