Communication workshop held in response to immunisation week

A communication workshop was held in Hanoi on June 12 in response to the immunisation week.
Communication workshop held in response to immunisation week ảnh 1Illustrative image (Source: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA)
– A communication workshopwas held in Hanoi on June 12 in response to the immunisation week.

Director of the National Institute of Hygieneand Epidemiology (NIHE) Dang Duc Anh said the week is carried out this monthwith a view to increasing the effective implementation of the national expandedvaccination against infectious diseases.

This is a practical activity to raise publicawareness of the importance of vaccination and call for the involvement andinvestment of authorities at levels and domestic and foreign organisations, headded.

According to the NIHE, the coverage of immunisationin the first three months of 2018 was on progress. Specifically, the rate ofinfants receiving hepatitis B vaccines within the first 24 hours after birth was16.9 percent, higher than the same period last year (16.2 percent).

The number of whooping cough cases inJanuary-March was reduced in comparison to the same period in 2017. Nodiphtheria cases were reported in the reviewed period (five cases recorded inthe first quarter of 2017).

Particularly, in February 2018, themeasles-rubella vaccine produced by Vietnam was utilised for children in NamDinh, Khanh Hoa, Dak Nong and Ba Ria-Vung Tau provinces.

As a result, 7,787 children aged 18-24 months receivedvaccination and no serious reaction cases were recorded after that.

The national vaccination information managementsystem has been operated nationwide with more than 11,000 vaccination sites atmedical stations in communes and wards.

Training courses for vaccination workers wereheld.

The immunisation week was initiated by the WorldHealth Organisation in 2011. 

At present, 180 countries and territories have joinedthis event to protect the public health.-VNA
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