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RCC-MR-CAMPAIGN (with picture)
Call to MR vaccination campaign successful
RAJSHAHI, March 15, 2020 (BSS) – Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has
sought media support to make the forthcoming measles-rubella (MR) vaccination
campaign a total success.
The RCC authority sought the support in a press conference held at its
conference hall here today ahead of the campaign to be observed in the city
from March 18 to April 11.
Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) and Directorate General of
Health Services supported the media conference discussing and devising ways
and means on how to make the campaign a total success collectively.
Panel Mayors Shariful Islam Babu and Nuruzzaman Tuku, Secretary Abu
Hayat Rahmatullah and Chief Health Officer Dr AFM Anjuman Ara Begum addressed
the press conference.
They told the press conference the city corporation has set a target to
bring around 92,154 babies in 547 schools from nine months to below 10 years
of age under measles-rubella vaccination campaign to protect them from
various diseases.
A total of 300 workers will be deployed to conduct the campaign in 102
centres including 60 temporary and 30 permanent ones.
Dr AFM Anjuman Ara Begum illustrated the aspects besides giving an
overview of the campaign in her multimedia presentation.
She urged the attending journalists to extend their wholehearted
cooperation so that the measles-rubella vaccination campaign can be
successful to save children’s lives.
She underscored the need for raising public awareness to ensure
immunization to hundred percent children to protect them from various
diseases.
Dr Anjuman Ara Begum said vaccination is vital for saving lives of
children. So all concerned should discharge their duties with utmost
sincerity and honesty to enhance awareness among the public to ensure
vaccination to cent percent children.
She added that the campaign will be conducted against measles and
rubella (MR) targeting the children from nine months to under 10 years of
age. Each of the children will be vaccinated with one dose of MR vaccine
irrespective of their previous vaccination status. The mass vaccination is
expected to have an impact to eliminate measles and control rubella.
She clarified that measles is one of the most infectious human diseases
and can cause serious illness including death.
However, rubella infection among women, especially during early 3 months
of pregnancy, has 90 percent chance to pass the virus to fetus resulting in
miscarriage, fetal death, or congenital defects known as congenital rubella
syndrome (CRS). The defects include cataracts, glaucoma and congenital heart
disease, she added.
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