Wardha. The state government has included a new vaccine in the public vaccination campaign. Pneumococcal vaccine is being given to protect children from deadly diseases like pneumonia. In this campaign started in the month of July, so far 4 thousand 500 children have been given the first in the district. Vaccine has been given, while 2238 children have been given second and 122 children have been given the third ie booster dose so far.
Let us tell you that this campaign is being run for the first time in the state. Special training has been given to health workers to make it successful. Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria (pneumococcus) cause various diseases by infecting the body.
Streptococcus pneumoniae This bacterium is spread by oil in children under 5 years of age. Pneumococcal pneumonia is an infection of the respiratory tract, which causes swelling and water in the lungs, resulting in shortness of breath, which reduces the oxygen level of the body. Symptoms of this disease are cough, breathlessness, fainting etc.
This disease is fatal for children, in order to provide better health to children in this crisis of corona, pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is being given to children under public vaccination campaign.
50 thousand children die every year
Pneumonia kills 50 thousand children every year in the country But in the third wave of Corona, due to the high risk to children, other states were included in it, for the first time this campaign has started in Maharashtra.
three vaccines being given
In this campaign, which started in the district from July 12, three doses are being given to children below one year of age, PCV-1, PCV-2 and booster, first vaccine at the age of one and a half months, second at the age of three and a half months and The third vaccine is being administered in the 9th month
12 thousand rupees in private hospitals
It is worth mentioning that, the cost of all three vaccines of conjugate vaccine is around 12 thousand in private hospitals. has been greatly relieved
vaccine beneficiary
PCV-1 4500
PCV-2 2238
Buster 122