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SHILLONG: Meghalaya is preparing for the measles and rubella vaccination campaign at the end of September 2018 and for this, a state-level workshop was organized by the Health Services Directorate ( MCH & FW). Saturday.
The workshop saw more than 60 participants from all 11 districts and partner agencies such as WHO, UNICEF, the Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP), Rotary International and the NEIGRIHMS. The inaugural session is held under the chairmanship of Pravin Bakshi, Secretary, Health and Family Welfare and Mission Director, NHM.
The Assistant Secretary General, Health and Family Welfare, P. W. Ingty, also addressed the participants on the second day. National and regional experts were present to train and guide the participants as training of trainers.
India has achieved monumental milestones with the eradication of polio in 2014 and the elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus in 2015.
It was done to strengthen immunization of routine by the introduction of new vaccines such as Pentavalent and Injectable Polio Vaccine, strengthening the cold chain and intensification of routine immunization by IMI / GSA-IMI
Rubella / CRS (congenital rubella syndrome) by 2020. To achieve this goal, the campaign against measles and rubella (MR) is launched in the country and covers all children from 9 months to less than 15 years . The rubella vaccine is not a new vaccine and it is already used in some states regularly and also by private practitioners as MR & MMR (mumps-measles-rubella) vaccines for a long time. . More than 9 children have already been vaccinated in 9 states of India, including Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Manipur and Nagaland. Now, this vaccine would be introduced into the routine immunization program in Meghalaya after the campaign
The estimated number of beneficiaries is over 13 million children aged 9 full months to less than 15 years old in Meghalaya and most of them would be attending school.
The goal is to achieve 100% coverage and the coverage assessed must be greater than 95% for the campaign to be successful.
Participants jointly made the commitment to eliminate measles and control rubella. Meghalaya.
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