Fewer children got free measles vaccine and booster shots last year because the government failed to convince their parents to have them immunized, a senator said on Thursday.

Sen. Grace Poe, a member of the Senate Committee on Health and Demography, said the Department of Health (DOH) needs to step up its information campaign to persuade parents to have their children vaccinated.

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