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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Health Ministry launches measles vaccination drive by Aarti Dhar

Health Ministry launches measles vaccination drive by Aarti Dhar

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published Published on Nov 6, 2011   modified Modified on Nov 6, 2011

Concerned over the large number of child deaths due to measles every year, the Centre has launched a massive anti-measles vaccination drive. More than 13 crore children are expected to be covered under the Measles Catch-up Campaign, irrespective of their previous measles vaccination status.

The drive has been launched by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, with support from the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD), for carrying out the vaccination programme in primary schools, targeting children aged up to 10 years, particularly in 14 States where the routine immunisation coverage is less than 80 per cent.The HRD Ministry has written to the State Education Departments to set up a State Steering Committee for implementing the campaign, which will, through a nodal officer, collaborate with principals and guardians of private and government schools for implementing the campaign. They will provide a list of schools and students enrolled.

For each school, the vaccination programme will be completed in one day with the least disruption to academic routine. However, unlike the Pulse Polio campaign, there will be no door-to-door visits, and children will have to be mobilised from outreach areas to the session site. Mobilisation and actual vaccination will be done by accredited social health activists, auxiliary nurse midwives, male health workers and other paramedical staff. The first round will be conducted in the education institutions and subsequently at the health centres

The States that will benefit from the campaign are Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Rajasthan, Tripura, and Uttar Pradesh.

Measles is a highly infectious disease which is contracted by children with low immunity and can cause acute respiratory problems, diarrhoea, and pneumonia. The disease can also result in disabilities such as visual impairment. While India has made significant improvement in reducing child mortality due to immunisation coverage, measles continues to remain a major cause of death among children, claiming between 50,000 and 1,00,000 lives every year. Measles can be prevented by a single dose of vaccine if it is administered when the child is between 9 and 12 months, but only 69 per cent of children in the country are protected against this disease in the country. The campaign offers an opportunity to the children to get immunised, particularly those who have been left out earlier.

The Hindu, 7 November, 2011, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article2604979.ece


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