The Department of Health extended for another 15 days the national immunization activity for children as it has yet to reach targets for measles and polio vaccination. | kdevillaINQ
Some 3.6 million kids had also received vitamin A supplements, according to the DOH.
The campaign aims to vaccinate 9.5 million kids nationwide against measles and rubella while another 11.1 million children are intended to be jabbed against polio.Health officials earlier noted that the Philippines has never reached the ideal 95-percent immunization coverage among Filipino children for vaccine-preventable diseases, hovering at only around 60 to 75 percent.
“There are many reasons on the ground why we couldn’t reach 95 percent. There were years that the challenge was more on delivery [of vaccines]. There were years that our challenge was more on the [lack of] human resources in the vaccination campaign,” Health Assistant Secretary Beverly Ho said in the campaign launch last month. The United Nations Children’s Fund Philippines, meanwhile, had said that unvaccinated babies and toddlers mostly come from disadvantaged communities.
Of the number, 52 of them, including the Philippines, were found to have waning confidence on routine immunization.Subscribe to our daily newsletter
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