Prime minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the a new round of vaccination campaign on Saturday.
Hasina kicked off the 20th National Vaccination campaign around 10:30am at the Ganabhaban.
This year, around 22 million children below five years across the country would be administered two drops of polio vaccine and one red vitamin-A capsule each under the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI).
Children aged six to 11 months would be given one blue vitamin-A capsule each.
Health workers would give vaccine and vitamin capsules to the children to be left out over next four days visiting houses.
Health minister A F M Ruhul Haque on Friday said that Bangladesh was polio-free for five years – from Aug 22, 2000 until Mar 8, 2006- when a new polio case was found.
He said Bangladesh could not be declared polio-free despite having no polio case, as a polio patient has been found in Burdawn in adjoining West Bengal state of India.
The minister said pneumonia vaccine would be given to the children from 2013 under EPI, which was launched in 1985. He mentioned that around 25,000 children below five years die of pneumonia in Bangladesh every year.
The second phase of the campaign would be observed on Feb 11, when children aged between two and five will be administered one anthelmintic tablet each.
Hasina kicked off the 20th National Vaccination campaign around 10:30am at the Ganabhaban.
This year, around 22 million children below five years across the country would be administered two drops of polio vaccine and one red vitamin-A capsule each under the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI).
Children aged six to 11 months would be given one blue vitamin-A capsule each.
Health workers would give vaccine and vitamin capsules to the children to be left out over next four days visiting houses.
Health minister A F M Ruhul Haque on Friday said that Bangladesh was polio-free for five years – from Aug 22, 2000 until Mar 8, 2006- when a new polio case was found.
He said Bangladesh could not be declared polio-free despite having no polio case, as a polio patient has been found in Burdawn in adjoining West Bengal state of India.
The minister said pneumonia vaccine would be given to the children from 2013 under EPI, which was launched in 1985. He mentioned that around 25,000 children below five years die of pneumonia in Bangladesh every year.
The second phase of the campaign would be observed on Feb 11, when children aged between two and five will be administered one anthelmintic tablet each.
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