20th NID today to reinforce country's polio-free status
Saturday, 7 January 2012
Bangladesh will immunise around 24 million children aged 0-59 months today (Saturday) for bolstering its polio-free status by providing two drops of polio vaccines during the 20th National Immunisation Day (NID), reports BSS.
The second round will be observed on February 11, says a UNICEF press release.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate the 20th NID at her official residence Ganobhaban.
Health workers and volunteers will administer oral polio vaccines to 24 million children aged 0-59 months and vitamin A capsules to 20 million children aged 6-59 months at 140,000 sites located in health facilities and health centres, schools, as well as mobile sites (bus, boat and train stations) throughout the country.
A four-day Child-to-Child Search will also be conducted by mobile teams in order to ensure that no child is left out.
The government with support from UNICEF, WHO, Rotary International and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, Atlanta) mounted a model response to immunize all under-5 children across the country when the first case of imported polio was detected in March 2006 after the country had been polio-free for five years.
The second round will be observed on February 11, says a UNICEF press release.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate the 20th NID at her official residence Ganobhaban.
Health workers and volunteers will administer oral polio vaccines to 24 million children aged 0-59 months and vitamin A capsules to 20 million children aged 6-59 months at 140,000 sites located in health facilities and health centres, schools, as well as mobile sites (bus, boat and train stations) throughout the country.
A four-day Child-to-Child Search will also be conducted by mobile teams in order to ensure that no child is left out.
The government with support from UNICEF, WHO, Rotary International and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, Atlanta) mounted a model response to immunize all under-5 children across the country when the first case of imported polio was detected in March 2006 after the country had been polio-free for five years.