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Written By: Editorial Team | Published : September 25, 2018 8:03 AM IST
Measles-rubella camaign launches in Jammul © Shutterstock
On Monday, the Measles-Rubella Vaccination campaign was launched across Jammu district to administer vaccines to over 3.85 lakh children falling in the 9 months to 15 years age group. An official spokesperson reportedly said the District Development Commissioner Ramesh Kumar inaugurated the campaign at the Government Girls High School Gandhi Nagar.
According to the PTI report, the campaign will continue till October 20 and will cover around 38 lakh children in Jammu and Kashmir.
For the first time, the measles-rubella campaign marks the introduction of the rubella vaccine in India's childhood immunisation programme.
According to the Health Department, 7,751 school children and 211 outreach beneficiaries were covered on the first day of the campaign in the district.
As per official estimates, Poonch has 1.7 lakh children in the targeted age group. More than 85 per cent of the children are to be vaccinated in government schools, -private schools and madrassas.
In Jammu district, vaccination will be given to over 3.85 lakh children, including 1.13 lakh in urban and 2.72 lakh in rural areas. Around 2.89 lakh children in the targeted age group, including 0.81 lakh in urban areas and 2.07 lakh in rural areas, will be covered in schools, while an estimated 0.96 lakh out-of-school beneficiaries of the district, including 0.32 lakh in urban areas and 0.64 lakh in rural areas, will be covered through outreach service, he added.
It was informed that schools across Jammu district have coordinated with the chief medical officer (CMO) and prepared a schedule for vaccination in each institution.
Meanwhile, Measles-Rubella Vaccination campaign was also launched by Deputy Commissioner of Poonch Rahul Yadav at a function organised at the Christ school under the supervision of Chief Medical Officer Dr Mumtaz Bhatti.
A few days back, the Health Minister of Tripura, Sudip Roy Barman has urged to make Measles and Rubella (MR) Immunization programme in Tripura most successful.
However, this Measles and Rubella (MR) immunization campaign in India will cover around 41 crore children across the country from 9 months to 15 years of age. On February 2017, the first phase of MR drive was conducted in Goa, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Lakshadweep in which 3.6 crore children were vaccinated.
From August 2017, the second phase of the campaign started which targeted around 3.6 crore children in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Kerala, Daman & Diu, Dadar & Nagar Haveli.
