Mission Indradhanush, the immunisation programme of the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to identify and vaccinate children against seven diseases by 2020, will take off in Mysuru district on October 7.
Children, who are either unvaccinated or partially vaccinated against diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, tuberculosis, measles and hepatitis B will be covered.
Mysuru is among the 17 districts identified under the second phase of the programme.
In the first phase launched in 2014, as many as 201 districts from across the country had been covered and 297 had been targeted in the second phase.
The Mysuru district administration is planning to invite Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to inaugurate the programme.
Construction workers, migrants and people living in hilly areas and several others could have missed getting their children vaccinated against the seven vaccine preventable diseases for various reasons. The programme will identify such children and vaccinate them.
The Department of Health and Family Welfare in the district had roped in ASHA and anganwadi workers to identify such children and a survey on had been conducted, a release said here.
The mission to vaccinate children will be held in October, November, December and January 2016, from seventh of the month for seven days barring Thursdays. The programme will be implemented in four stages.
Senior officials in the Health Department had asked the health workers to ensure that no unvaccinated child was left out in getting vaccine during the period of Mission Indra Dhanush. “Give publicity about the programme in bus-stands and railway stations so that the migrant population is aware about the programme,” the officials told.
Vaccination in October, November, December and January 2016
