Sanctions for not vaccinating your child? In Poland it's just a theory

Medexpress: What legal tools do we have to enforce mandatory vaccination of children?

Katarzyna Czyzewska: First of all, we have an obligation to vaccinate - those that are in the mandatory vaccination calendar. On the other hand, the enforcement of this obligation is at a fairly low level in Poland. This is due to the fact that the sanctions that are possible to impose are quite poorly enforced. These sanctions are primarily a fine for coercion. This consists in the fact that if a person does not submit to an obligation under the law, which only he can perform, that is, for example, does not submit to vaccination or does not have his child vaccinated, then the sanitary inspector can impose a fine on him. These fines can be repeated until the obligation is fulfilled. In theory, the...