Expanded immunisation service under UIP launched

The State health department launched the expanded the immunisation services under the Universal Immunisation Programme at all 500 functional health and welfare centres on Wednesday.
Health minister M. Subramanian, who launched the programme at a HWC centre in T. Nagar said to achieve 100% coverage of routine immunisation for vaccine preventable diseases in the state, all the UIP vaccines would be made available in all HWCs on every Wednesday. Such an arrangement is currently available in all the 2,286 Primary Health Centres.
The government will soon be commissioning another 208 HWCs and the vaccines will be administered there as well, he added.
The minister said under the UIP, 11 vaccines are provided to children and pregnant women against 12 vaccine preventable diseases. In 15 endemic districts vaccination against Japanese encephalitis is also provided. According to him the state consistently achieved immunisation coverage of over 99% annually, with around 9.5 lakh pregnant women and 8.76 lakh children/infants being administered the vaccines under UIP.
Immunisation sessions will be offered daily in all primary health centres, paediatric units of government medical colleges, district headquarters, taluk and non-taluk hospitals. Every Wednesday outreach sessions will be held in villages and towns.
The cold chain is maintained for the vaccines being supplied by the Union government, the minister explained. They are transported through refrigerated vans to regional vaccine stores and then distributed to the district vaccine stores, Mr. Subramanian informed.
Senior health department officials, including the health secretary, the director of public health, the director of National Health Mission besides health officials of the Greater Chennai Corporation were present at the launch.

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