Mission Indradhanush
Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Mr. J.
P. Nadda has announced that a set of four new vaccines will be added soon under
“Mission Indradhanush”. As a part of India’s newborn action plan,
Ø Inactivated polio vaccine,
Ø Adult Japanese Encephalitis
vaccine,
Ø Rotavirus vaccine and
Ø Measles Rubella vaccine
will be added.
About Mission Indradhanush
It was launched by the Union Government of India on
December 25, 2014 with an aim to cover all the children who are lack
vaccination or are partially vaccinated against seven vaccine preventable diseases which include diphtheria,
whooping cough, tetanus, polio, tuberculosis, measles and hepatitis B, by the
end of the year 2020. Over the period, the Centre has recovered 40 lakh
children of the 90 lakh.
· The health mission was
launched on Good Governance Day (Dec 25) to mark the birth anniversary of
Bharat Ratna, Madan Mohan Malaviya and birthday of Bharat Ratna, Atal Bihari
Vajpayee.
· A total of 201 high focus
districts in the country having nearly 50% of all unvaccinated or partially
vaccinated children were identified to be covered in the first phase of the
mission.
· Out of the 201 districts, 82
districts are in the four states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and
Rajasthan. This means that nearly 25 percent of the unvaccinated or partially
vaccinated children of India are in the 82 districts of these 4 states.
· As per the mission
guidelines, these districts will be targeted by intensive efforts to improve
the routine immunization coverage.
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