KL Report

Jammu

Minister of state for Health, Shabir Ahmed Khan today launched the Liquid Pentavalent Vaccine (LPV) in the state – a multipurpose vaccine that protects the children from five fatal diseases.  The new Vaccine   would replace the DPT, immunizing the children against five diseases of Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus, Hepatitis–B and Haemophlious Influenza–B (Hib), as against the previous vaccine that provided protection against only three diseases.

The Minister said that to combat the infant mortality rate, the Centre Government introduced this vaccine which will be provided at every government hospital free of cost.

As per a statement Shabir, after formally launching the LPV vaccination programme at Government Hospital Gandhi Nagar, said that Jammu and Kashmir has achieved the distinction of being among the six states of the country having this immunization programme for children.  He said the new vaccine would revolutionize the child-care in the state.

The Minister informed that the decision regarding introduction of Pentavalent Vaccine was taken at the 8th meeting of Mission Steering Group of NRHM and he also said that the states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu had already introduced the vaccine in 2011.

The Minister stressed for launching massive campaign to aware the people of the state about the new immunization programme, especially residing in far-flung, remote and hilly areas.

Earlier, the Minister was informed through a power point presentation that the state government has received 2.83 lakh doses for the first quarter of the year which will be administrated among 2,23,741 infants across the state. He was also apprised that the vaccine has been launched at every district of the state today.

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