‘Mission Indradhanush’ reaches great miles immunising the future of the country

NewsBharati    19-Jan-2018
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New Delhi, January 19: With the increasing amount of intensifying immunization in the country, the officials of health department have left no stones unturned to enlighten the masses. It is however seen that the awareness has achieved great mile to immunise the children of the country. To ease the mode of awareness among the people the National Health Portal has also started an app for Child Immunization called as Indradhanush Immunization.

 

The objective of National Health Portal, India is to provide healthcare related information to the citizens of India and to serve as a single point of access for consolidated health information.Women and children have always been a focal audience in its vision. The aim of the mission is expanding immunization coverage to all children across India by year 2020. The app informs the parent about the vaccinations and has been developed to cater to parents to help them tracking the immunization of their children.

 

Immunising the children with vaccination enables the child to be safe. India fighting against child mortality has now achieved a significant decline in less than five child mortality rate. The rate of decline has doubled over last year. India registered a significant decline in under-five child mortality.

 

According to the bulletin, under-five child mortality (U5MR) of India showed an impressive decline by 9%, 4 points decline from 43 per 1000 in 2015 to 39 in 2016. The rate of decline has doubled over the last year. Most of the states have shown good progress in reduction of under-five child mortality from the previous year, except Chattisgarh, Delhi and Uttarakhand, which have shown a slight increase over the previous year and Telangana, which has shown no change in 2016.

 

It is stated that the results signify that the strategic approach of the Government is yielding dividends and the efforts of focusing on low performing states are paying off. He stated that India with the current rate of decline of U5MR is on track to meet the SDG target for under-five child mortality of 25 by 2030. If there are any queries and questions on Child Immunization log in to nhphds@gmail.com
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