Preparations for the MR vaccination campaign examined at Budgam, Anantnag, Kulgam, Shopian

"The program will start from September after an appropriate badessment of children up to 15 years of age"

SRINAGAR: Meetings were held in Budgam, Anantnag, Kulgam and Shopian on Saturday to discuss preparations for the measles-rubella vaccination campaign from 1 September, to be launched as part of the national vaccination campaign for children up to 15 years.
In Budgam and Kulgam, the meetings were chaired by DDC Budgam Dr. Syed Sehrish Asgar and DDC Kulgam Dr. Shamim Ahmad Wani
In Anantnag, the meeting was chaired by CMO Deputy Chair, Anantnag.
At Shopian, a one-day workshop on the importance of measles-rubella immunization was inaugurated by additional Shopian Assistant Commissioner. Parvaiz Sajad Ganie, who was the main guest on this occasion
He was informed that the campaign that will be launched for the first time in the state will run in three phases for a total of 6 weeks. It was said that the first phase would be in schools, the second in the community, including high-risk areas and the third phase will involve a raking operation during which the vaccinated will be vaccinated.
asked to prepare the list of students from government / private schools up to the 10th clbad and also students from the madrasa and Darul-ulooms and children at home, so that every child will be vaccinated during countryside.
Measles-rubella vaccine, said Vice-CMO Anantnag, saying that measles is a highly contagious disease caused by a virus. "Measles can occur in a person who has never had this disease and has no immunity against it." Any non-immune person who has not been vaccinated or who has been vaccinated but who has not been vaccinated 39, has not developed immunity can be infected and present the highest risk of measles and complications, including death, "he said
. children and young adults. "The virus is present in the nose and throat discharges a week before the appearance of a rash and two weeks after. When a primary rubella infection occurs in a pregnant woman, the virus can infect the unborn baby. "Although the disease is usually mild, the importance of preventing it is due to the potentially devastating consequences of infection during pregnancy, for example." He said that infection during pregnancy may result miscarriage, the baby's death in the womb or babies born with conbad malformations, known as conbad rubella syndrome (CRS) .CRC is usually manifested by heart disease, a cataract in eyes, mental retardation and deafness.
Measles and rubella can be prevented by the administration of vaccines, but a single dose provides less than multiple doses of protection, and the whole population is vaccinated. In a region gives an increased effect of "collective immunity" and that is the concept underlying the vaccination campaign by RM.

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