PESHAWAR, April 27 (ONLINE): – Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) Department of Health Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is celebrating World Immunization Week from April 24 to April 30, with the main objective of promoting the importance of vaccination and creates awareness among people.
This year’s theme, The Big Catch-Up, is an opportunity to raise awareness of the urgent and critical need to find and vaccinate children who missed vaccines that help to protect them from illness, disability, and death.
In addition, this week is to emphasize more and more activities on immunization at all levels so that people can be vaccinated simultaneously and at all levels and to improve health and welfare services for everyone.
Expanded Programme on Immunization KP Director Dr. Muhammad Arif Khan has said about the importance of this week that every year the last week of April is celebrated as World Immunization Week in which vaccination campaign is conducted in the entire province, to create awareness among people about the importance and efficacy of vaccination to prevent 12 dangerous diseases.
Director EPI urged parents to vaccinate their children up to two years of age against deadly diseases and protect them against 12 dangerous diseases including tuberculosis, polio, diphtheria, cough, tetanus, meningitis. , Hepatitis B, Diarrhea, Pneumonia, Typhoid, Measles and Rubella.
On this occasion, Dr. Mohammad Arif also thanked the supportive organizations that they stand side by side with the health department and cooperate fully in making every campaign successful.
Health Specialist Unicef Dr. Inamullah said in his statement that 60% of children in tribal areas and 49% of children in the rest of the districts miss out on completing the complete course of vaccination, which is one of the main reasons that parents are not aware of the importance of vaccination, lack of parental time and having various doubts. He said that the vaccine is completely safe and requested the parents to ensure that their children are vaccinated against deadly diseases to secure their future and enable them to live a healthy and happy life.
Director General Health Services, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Dr. Shaukat Ali, in his message about World Immunization Week, said that the aim of celebrating this week is to protect more children from vaccine-preventable diseases and to create awareness about the importance of vaccines.
Dr Shaukat Ali while paying tribute to the frontline workers said that EPI teams play a vital role in providing vaccination facilities in remote and underprivileged areas and their tireless efforts to keep children safe from epidemics.
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