The Island will examine the UK scheme to offer free flu vaccination to all children before deciding whether to introduce a similar initiative here.
It was announced today that from 2014, all children in the UK between the ages of 2 and 17 will be eligible for the vaccination which would be administered via a nasal spray at schools and doctors' surgeries.
It's claimed that up to two thousand lives a year could be saved.
However, Director of Public Health on the Island, Dr Parameshwaran Kishore, says as it could cost anything up to ?300,000 per year for a similar scheme on the Island, he will have to decide if the benefits would justify the expenditure
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