Immunisation is significant to .(Photo: VNA)Dak Lak (VNA) – laid
stress on the importance of immunisation for public health and calling parents
to get their children at a meeting held in Buon
Ma Thuot city, the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on June 15.
The event was organised in response to the national immunisation week themed
“Vaccination to protect the community”.
Localities should further efforts to ensure the vaccination rate reaching 95
percent in mountainous, remote and difficult districts, he said, adding that relevant
authorities must ensure sufficient cost for the National Expanded Programme on
Immunisation.
Hospitals must provide hepatitis B vaccine for newborns in their first 24 hours
after birth while updating information to ensure that citizens are immunised
sufficiently, he said.
At the meeting, Satoko Otsu, Representative of the World Health Organisation
(WHO) to Vietnam, spoke highly of immunisation campaign in Vietnam as more than
95 percent of 1.7 million Vietnamese newborns receive free vaccination to
prevent ten infectious diseases entitled to the expanded national vaccination
programme.
The WHO committed to accompanying with Vietnam to reduce the child mortality
rate and strive to have 100 percent of the population vaccinated, she noted.
The National Expanded Programme on Immunisation has been carried out in Vietnam
since 1985, which help eliminate poliomyelitis in 2000 and neonatal tetanus in
2005. In addition, the National Immunisation Information System, which was
launched in 2017, helps keep close watch and remind parents of their children’s
schedules.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
