Full Immunization is every child’s right for healthy life: WHO

New Delhi, November 10: Each and every child has the right to live a healthy life. For this a child should be fully immune to fight against various diseases. Proper vaccination regularly makes a child immune. Today is World Immunization Day, A day which makes you aware that is your child totally immune?

On this occasion Ministry of Health stresses on its Mission Indradhanush, a program that ensures all children under the age of two years and pregnant women to be fully immunized with all available vaccines. The mission aims to achieve 90% immunization coverage by Dec 2018. It will be closely monitored at district, state & central level. It’s a responsibility of parents to ensure that their child doesn’t remain deprived of their routine vaccination. Certain points are to be remembered while you go for vaccinations are:

· Ensure that new needle and syringe is used during immunization

· After the use of needle and syringe it is discarded

· Keep a record of your child’s immunization schedule

· Follow the immunization schedule as per Universal Immunization Programme (UIP)

 

Universal Immunization Programme is a vaccination program launched by the Government of India in 1985. It became a part of Child Survival and Safe Motherhood Programme in 1992 and is currently one of the key areas under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) since 2005. The program now consists of vaccination for 12 diseases- tuberculosis, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), tetanus, poliomyelitis, measles, Hepatitis B, Diarrhoea, Japanese Encephalitis, rubella, Pneumonia( Heamophilus Influenza Type B)and Pneumococcal diseases (Pneumococcal Pneumonia and Meningitis). Hepatitis B and Pneumococcal diseases were added to the UIP in 2007 and 2017 respectively.