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With 4 new vaccines, govt to revamp immunisation drive -Sushmi Dey

-The Times of India

New Delhi: The health ministry will soon revamp its flagship immunisation programme 'Mission Indradhanush' to include four new vaccines. The mission, currently providing coverage against seven life-threatening diseases, will soon also include vaccines for rotavirus, measles rubella, inactivated polio vaccine biavalent and Japanese Encephalitis for adults, health minister Jagat Prakash Nadda said. Mission Indradhanush — depicting the seven colours of the rainbow — will also be rechristened accordingly, an official said. It currently provides immunisation coverage against diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, tuberculosis, measles and hepatitis B.

"Mission Indradhanush has brought change in the lives of people. We have to keep some other name in place of Indradhanush as the vaccinations have gone up from seven to eleven," Nadda said. One of the major health initiatives, the immunisation programme and its coverage was implemented and expanded in a major way under the present government. Around 89 lakh children in India are estimated to be either unvaccinated or partially vaccinated.

Under Mission Indradhanush, the ministry identified 201 high-focus districts which account for nearly 50% of all unvaccinated or partially vaccinated children in the country. Of these, 82 districts are in just the four states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, MP and Rajasthan and account for nearly 25% of all unvaccinated or partially vaccinated children of the country.

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