A bill to promote the health of infants and young children while reducing consumer burden by including rotavirus vaccines in the National Immunization Program (NIP) is being promoted.

If passed, the bill will turn GSK¡¯s Rotarix and MSD¡¯s RotaTeq that are already being used in Korea into free national vaccinations. Since the WHO recommends mandatory vaccination of the rotavirus vaccine and the nature of the virus that is highly infectious among infants and young children, attention is focused on the legislative direction of the bill.

On the 18th, NA member Bae Hyun-jin of the People Power Party announced that she had submitted a bill as representative for the partial amendment of the ¡