VADNAGAR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched an intensive immunisation drive from Gujarat’s Vadnagar today, saying no child should suffer from any vaccine-preventable disease.
Through the ‘Intensified Mission Indradhanush’ or IMI, the Government aims to reach every child below the age of two years and pregnant women still uncovered under the routine immunisation programme, an official statement said.
Under the IMI, a seven-day immunisation drive will be conducted each month from now till January 2018 in 173 districts and 17 cities, the statement said. These districts include 52 in eight northeastern states and 121 in 16 other states, it added.
The programme will cover low performing areas in the selected districts and cities.
“Let no child suffer from any vaccine-preventable disease,” Modi said while launching the programme. (AGENCIES0
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