Although the efforts of international and domestic health institutions have been made in recent months in raising public awareness of the danger of spreading measles and the importance of immunization, many parents in Montenegro continue refusing their children to receive MMR vaccine. Consequently, 218 misdemeanour charges were filed, mostly in Podgorica (63), Niksic (59), Bar (27) and Herceg Novi (24).
Mojkovac is the only Montenegrin municipality in which all children are vaccinated. Ten children in Pljevlja have not been vaccinated, but according to the inspectors, parents’ statements about the refusal of vaccination are missing.
