HCM City (VNA) - The percentage offully vaccinated children under the expanded national vaccinationprogramme in Ho Chi Minh City has reached 95.2 percent so farthis year, according to the Centre for Disease Control in the city.
In HCM City, a total of113,000 children must be vaccinated under the national vaccination programme.
District 8 recorded thelowest vaccination coverage at 86.1 percent, followed by other districts suchas Tan Binh, Binh Thanh, Phu Nhuan, 10, 11, and 12.
These districts are unlikelyto meet the target of vaccination coverage this year, according to Le Hong Nga, head of the centre’s infectiousdiseases department.
Some parents failed to havetheir children fully vaccinated due to a lack of information or theirchildren’s illness, Nga said at a meeting last week in HCM City.
“Every child in HCM City mustreceive vaccinations as scheduled,” said Nguyen Huu Hung, deputy director of the city’sDepartment of Health.
Hung ordered health facilities indistricts to provide parents adequate information on the vaccinationprogramme and schedule.
A total of 495 healthfacilities in HCM City offer vaccination services, including 104 privatefacilities. /.