There has been no complaint against the measles rubella vaccination programme in the city so far.
No complications too have been reported, according to sources in the Coimbatore Corporation.
Health workers in all the 100 Wards had thus far vaccinated over 65,000 children and students.
The Corporation had been carrying out the campaign from February 6.
It targeted children aged between nine months and five years and school students. Vaccine is provided free of cost.
The sources said that the Corporation’s target was to vaccinate 3,71,123 students.
About 100 staff on duty are providing around 12,000 vaccinations a day in the city. Health workers, sometimes, have to reach the houses of students to administer the vaccine, which is time consuming and thus affects the target.
Most of the students the Corporation had vaccinated were from government-run and government-aided schools, the sources said and added that the response from private schools had been rather poor.
One possible reason for students in private schools not opting for the vaccination was the rumours that did the rounds in social media on the ill-effects of the vaccine.
The Corporation had vaccinated a little over 66,000 children so far, and no ill-effects had been reported, the sources said.
The sources added that to encourage parents to vaccinate their children, the State Government had started the vaccination drive in Corporation’s health centres and bigger hospitals.
Rubella is an infectious viral illness that affected both children and adults. When acquired in the first trimester of pregnancy, it can cause congenital rubella syndrome leading to abortions, still births, babies with congenital anomalies, including blindness.
