Health ministry works to increase immunisation coverage
Immunisation is one of the most important measures to protect the community from life-threatening and popular contagious diseases, said Deputy Minister of Health Truong Quoc Cuong.
Parents should have their children fully vaccinated in the recommended schedule. (Photo: VNA)
Ha Tinh (VNA) – Immunisation is one of the most important measures toprotect the community from life-threatening and popular contagious diseases,said Deputy Minister of Health Truong Quoc Cuong.
He was speaking at a ceremony held in the central province of Ha Tinh on April19 in response to the World Immunisation Week 2019 themed “Protected Together:Vaccines Work!”.
Cuong said that after 30 years implementing the expanded free immunisationprogramme, with high vaccination rate of more than 95 percent, Vietnam wipedout poliomyelitis in 2000, and eliminated neonatal tetanus in 2005. Many otherdiseases like measles, diphtheria and whooping cough have fallen significantly.
He said that parents should have their children fully vaccinated in therecommended schedule in order to create a barrier of immunisation for the wholecommunity. Meanwhile, authorities at all levels should work to ensuresufficient money for the vaccination campaign, and assure the injection rate at95 percent in all communes and wards.
In the coming time, the health ministry will add more vaccines to the expandedvaccination programme, he added.
According to the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, the programme hasbeen carried out in all cities and provinces nationwide since 1985. Freevaccination against ten most popular contagious illnesses has been open to allchildren aged 0-36 months, and women of childbearing age.-VNA
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Parents should have their children fully vaccinated in the recommended schedule. (Photo: VNA) 
