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Mission Indradhanush camp to be held from today
Posted on: 07/Jul/2015 11:33:47 AM
The fourth round of Mission Indradhanush, the Central government’s programme to improve immunization of children will be held from July 7 to 13 in Tamil Nadu.
Launched with an aim to cover all children, who had missed vaccination or are partially vaccinated by 2020, as per the national immunization schedule, the mission is being carried out in eight districts (Vellore, Coimbatore, Tiruchy, Kancheepuram, Tirunelveli, Madurai, Tiruvallur and Virudhunagar).
The aim of the mission was to vaccinate children against seven vaccine preventable diseases. But this seven was only an average as it was eight in some districts and nine in Japanese Encephalitis endemic districts.
Children are vaccinated against eight diseases – tuberculosis, polio, hepatitis, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, influenza and measles. To prevent neonatal tetanus, ante natal mothers are vaccinated against tetanus in these camps.
Camps under the Mission Indradhanush are similar to the special campaigns organized for pulse polio immunization. The department chalks out block-wise plans for the week-long camps and village health nurses are roped in to reach out to the children.
