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Kids in remote villages to be vaccinated
IN AN effort to bring down the high mortality rate in children due to malnutrition and other common diseases, the Health Department has launched a Special Immunisation Week, from Sunday.
IN AN effort to bring down the high mortality rate in children due to malnutrition and other common diseases, the Health Department has launched a Special Immunisation Week, from Sunday.
The children in the remote villages in all the 20 blocks will be administered routine BCG, DPT (Diptheria, Tetanus and Pertusis), Measles, TT and polio vaccine, during the drive.
The drive is the part of National Health and Family Welfare Programme and aims to cover children, where medical and health facilities are not accessible to the local residents.
The special teams have been formed in every block to administer vaccine doses to children in villages, which are not connected to the roads.
The children in small hamlets are also being covered.
The drive will also be conducted in villages where the posting of ANMs, Anganwadi and health workers is negligible.
"There are dozens of villages in every block which remain isolated due to poor accessibility to the basic facilities like roads and other infrastructure.
The residents, mainly children, do not get proper medical and health facilities, due to which there is a high prevalence of malaria, measles and other viral diseases in these regions.
So, in order to bring down the high prevalence rate of diseases in children, the special immunisation week is being observed from December 10," said district immunisation officer Dr Swatantra Mishra.
Dr Mishra said the health workers will reach these villages with cycles or two-wheelers, as there was no roads for motor vehicles.
The team immunises the children and also issues 'immunisation cards' to them.
"The villages on the Allahabad border will also be covered during the drive.
The special focus will be on villages under Dhanupur, Handia and Mauaima blocks," added the district immunisation officer.
