World Immunization Week 2019:Celebrate the Immunisation Week By Promoting Awareness

The Immunisation Awareness week will be celebrated this year between April 24 and April 30 To promote the importance of vaccination and immunization, the world celebrates World Immunisation week, initiated by the efforts of the World Health Organisation.

While the world moves towards achieving absolute immunization, diseases like measles, meningitis A, mumps, polio, hepatitis B, and Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib) still require complete vaccines and dosages at regular intervals.

There are certain loopholes and gaps that are mentioned by WHO in achieving complete immunization. According to the data released by the World Health Organization (WHO), the following are the existing gaps in immunization awareness.

  ♦Only a little improvement is recorded in terms of global vaccination coverage and it stands at 85% for the last decade.

  ♦An India-specific study by the health Affairs Organisation found that India has 9.6 million unimmunized children.

  ♦ This accounts for more than one-third of the 27 million unimmunized children around the world.

  ♦There is a steep increase in the use of the new vaccines, according to the WHO's estimate. Moreover, if the immunization progress stays consistent, it will avoid around 1.5 million deaths in the coming years.

How to close the immunization gaps...

While there are some shortcomings and loopholes that still exist, here are a few methods through which this immunization gap can be filled.

 ♦Ensuring proper Health Management Information system in Place

 ♦Sending proper Health Management Information System in place

 ♦Sending phone message or IVR phone call informing people on dates and locations of a health campaign.

 ♦ introducing new health schemes, new missions and programmes like intensified mission Indradhanush health scheme, which used the smart strategy of cross-sectoral participation for vaccinating a maximum number of children.

 ♦Advertising health schemes through Radio and Tv to increase the outreach of such schemes