Anti-measles vaccination campaign across the country from Sunday

Kathmandu. In view of the risk of measles-rubella infection, the government is conducting a vaccination campaign in 75 districts except Jajarkot and Paschimrukum from February 13 to Chait 7.
Senior public health administrator Dr. Bhuvan Paudel informed that five lakh 97 thousand three hundred five children of Kathmandu district will be vaccinated as part of the campaign at a press conference held here on Thursday. He said that those children will be vaccinated from 1,670 vaccination centers.
He said that first the school will be made a vaccination center and on the last day of vaccination, vaccination will be given at the health institutions located in the ward office. Vaccination campaign will be conducted from 10 am to 4 pm. Likewise, children from nine months to five years of age in 51 districts will participate in the vaccination campaign.
There are 250,000 children in Kathmandu Metropolitan City. Vaccination campaign will be conducted in 10 local levels of Kathmandu district in Shankharapur, Kageshwari Manhara, Gokarneshwar, Dakshinkali, Nagarjuna, Tokha, Tarakeshwar, Budhanilkanth, Chandragiri and Kirtipur from February 13th and in Kathmandu Metropolitan City from February 16th to 29th.
332 health workers and 3,000 volunteers will be mobilized for the vaccination campaign.
Children between nine months to 15 years of age and 9 months to five years of age will be vaccinated in 24 districts of Kathmandu Valley, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur in 21 highly infected districts of measles-rubella bordering India and 51 districts of nine months to five years of age.
Kathmandu is a highly infected district of measles-rubella. All children from nine months to 15 years of age will be vaccinated. Last year, 225 people were infected and one person died when measles-rubella spread in Kathmandu district. Last year, it spread as an epidemic in 19 districts.