Federal Office of Public Health savings drive

Switzerland's Federal Office of Public Health is scaling back prevention work after being told to save CHF 11 million a year

Vaccination information sheets — the ones parents find in paediatricians' waiting rooms — are no longer available on paper, and some have not been updated for six years.

Public health experts at Unisanté warn the cuts are short-sighted, since three-quarters of health spending goes on preventable diseases.

The federal office says paper fact sheets will return in a few weeks.

 

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