Delayed vaccination is manageable and not as life-threatening as the current pandemic Experts advise parents to immediately prioritise immunisation, post-lockdown; ensure important vaccinations at-birth at the maternity clinic, esp. polio-DTP and measles April 22, 2020: India and the world today are confronted with an unprecedented global health exigency in the form of COVID-19. During these …
Member states of the United Nations (UN) have endorsed a resolution addressing the COVID-19 pandemic – including addressing accessibility of a COVID-19 vaccine. The COVID-19 outbreak mushroomed into a pandemic earlier this year, with more than two million people at the time of writing having become infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). …
When it comes to health issues, it is unsurprising the pandemic of COVID-19 dominates the conversation. Yet, as we appraise the gravity of COVID-19, it is important to remember that the world grapples with a plethora of public health concerns. Among them is measles – and it is deeply concerning that the line of defence …
When World Health Organization Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, he said “we have never before seen a pandemic sparked by a coronavirus…and we have never before seen a pandemic that can be controlled, at the same time.” While the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted countries the world over – India …
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Karnataka’s immunisation coverage among children has reached 99 percent as part of centrally-led efforts to increase vaccination rates against multiple infectious diseases. ‘Indradhanush 2’ was announced earlier this year in a bid to, as previously noted by Health Issues India, “boost vaccination coverage for those who are either unimmunised or only partially immunised, to further …
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The Punjab government has been criticised by a BJP official over rabies vaccine shortages in the state. Parveen Bansal, general secretary of the Punjab BJP chapter, took the state government to task after he reported sending someone who had been bitten by a dog to the Ludhiana Civil Hospital. According to a report published in …
Almost 80,000 children and more than 13,000 pregnant women will benefit from an intensified immunisation drive in Maharashtra. The news comes from the state on the heels of an announcement earlier this year that the Government of India was stepping up its immunisation efforts through Indradhanush 2: an enhanced version of the Government’s vaccination drive …
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Officials are optimistic about the prospect of a rabies-free Goa, with hopes that the state could become the first in India to eradicate the disease in 2020. No rabies cases were reported in the state in 2018. The progress came on the heels of Mission Rabies, a statewide drive in place since 2014 which saw …
Today marked World Pneumonia Day, which came with a chilling reminder from UNICEF: every day, the disease kills a child every 39 seconds. “Every day, nearly 2,200 children under the age of five die from pneumonia, a curable and mostly preventable disease,” commented UNICEF executive director Henrietta Fore. 800,000 children lose their lives to the …
Today marked World Polio Day, an annual observance acknowledging what once was a dominant threat to global health – and could well become a thing of the past entirely so long as momentum is sustained as we approach polio’s endgame. With the observance came a landmark report from the World Health Organization (WHO): wild poliovirus …
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