Kathmandu. Around 110,0263 girls in Kathmandu district are to be vaccinated against cervical cancer with the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV).
At an orientation program for the District Vaccination Coordination Committee and the Media Sector organized by the Public Health Office Kathmandu here today, Satish Bista, Senior Public Health Administrator of the office, informed that 110,0263 girls from 11 local levels of Kathmandu will be vaccinated. According to him, 97,540 girls from grades 6 to 10 and 12,723 girls from the age group of 10 to 14 who are out of school will be vaccinated.
Bista said that the maximum number of girls in the Kathmandu Metropolitan City area, 51,347, and the least number of girls in Nagarjuna Municipality, 4,652, will be vaccinated against HPV. The girls of that age group will be vaccinated through 1,101 schools and 146 other vaccination centers. 2,412 health workers will be deployed for the vaccination. The city has stated that the vaccination campaign will be conducted from Magh 22 to 6.
Chief of the Public Health Office, Basanta Adhikari, said that work is being done to ensure that no girl child is deprived of vaccination by forming a vaccination committee under the coordination of the mayor in the municipality and the ward chairperson in the ward office. He said that a special campaign will also be launched by identifying places where vaccination can be missed.
The government is conducting a vaccination campaign against cancer targeting 1.688 million nine hundred girls aged 10 to 14 years in grades 6 to 10 across the country.
In Nepal every year, four women die from cervical cancer. Human papilloma virus infection is the main reason for increasing the risk of cervical cancer, so it is necessary to be vaccinated against it. According to experts, cervical cancer is the most common cancer among women in Nepal, followed by breast cancer.