Kathmandu. Kathmandu Metropolitan City will conduct a household survey from the 24th to the 30th of Baisakh to detect children who have missed regular vaccinations. According to Sajina Maharjan, head of the division of the health department, to ensure and verify complete vaccination, it is going to search for children who missed vaccination according to the guidelines for ensuring complete vaccination declaration. Through this search, the vaccination status of children in the age group of 16 months to 59 months will be identified. Based on the population of children in the age group of 5 years, health workers and women health volunteers will be mobilized for search and survey work. The children found at this time will be called on Baisakh 31 and arrangements will be made to give them vaccination.
According to the National Vaccination Schedule, the children who must be vaccinated regularly under the Comprehensive Search and Vaccination Campaign and who missed it earlier will also be vaccinated tomorrow i.e. Friday 15th Baisakh. According to the head of the department, Maharjan, vaccinations will be given from all the health institutions in the metropolitan city for all the children who are required to receive regular vaccinations or who missed them according to the schedule. All its preparations have been completed. In Nepal, the month of Baisakh is celebrated as the vaccination month. Kathmandu Metropolitan City is conducting various activities to celebrate vaccination month.
BCG vaccine is given as soon as the baby is born. The second vaccination is Rota, Polio, PCV, DPT, and Heb B – Hib vaccine is given at 6 weeks. The third vaccine is given at 10 months after birth. In this, the second dose of the vaccine in 6 months is given. The fourth vaccine is given in the fourteenth week. It includes polio, FIPV, DPT, and Heb V-Hib vaccination. The fifth vaccination is given in 9 months. FIPV, PCV, and Rubella Measles are vaccinated in it. The vaccine is given six times in 12 months. The vaccine given this time is Japanese encephalitis. The seventh vaccine is given at 15 months. This vaccine is the second dose of rubella measles. Typhoid vaccination is also administered at this time.
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