Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The National Institute of Hygiene and
Epidemiology has signed contracts with domestic vaccine producers on the supply of ten types of
vaccines used for the (EPI).
According to the institute, the vaccines will be
soon allocated to localities this month. Specifically, there will be over 1.55
million doses of BCG vaccine for Tuberculosis, 1 million doses of Hepatitis B vaccine,
4.98 million doses of oral Polio vaccine (OPV), 1.9 million doses of Measles
vaccine; 1.7 million doses of Measles-Rubella vaccine; 1.4 million doses of
Japanese Encephalitis vaccine; 1.53 million doses of combined Diphtheria-Pertussis-Tetanus vaccine (DPT); 1.47 million doses of Tetanus vaccine and 1.37 million
doses of Tetanus-Diphtheria (TD) vaccine.
The quantity of these nine vaccines is enough
to vaccinate children who did not get vaccinated in 2023 and those who are
scheduled to be vaccinated in the first six months of 2024, according to a
representative of the institute.
Particularly, nearly 550,000 doses of Rota
vaccine which has been added to the EPI will be provided to children under 1-year-old from the second quarter of this year.
The EPI is a WHO programme that was launched in 1974 and was introduced in Vietnam in 1981. It provides vaccines for 12 preventable diseases, namely
Tuberculosis, Hepatitis B, Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus, Polio, Hib, Measles,
Rubella, Japanese Encephalitis, Cholera (in high-risk areas), and Typhoid (in
high-risk areas)./.
Source: VietnamPlus
