Cholera Vaccination Campaign To Be Launched Sunday

To prevent the spread of diarrhoea and cholera diseases across the country, the government is going to launch a campaign for administering oral vaccines from Sunday, reports BSS.

Administering the first dose of the cholera vaccine will continue till July 2.

Except for pregnant women, the oral vaccine will be administered to all people aged one year and above.

Under the national cholera control programme, the vaccination campaign will be carried out in city's Jatrabari, Sabujbag, Mirpur, Mohammadpur and Dakkhinkhan areas, the Communicable Disease Control (CDC) unit of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) sources said.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is funding the vaccination campaign while the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) is implementing the drive.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque is expected to inaugurate the campaign at the Sasakawa Auditorium of icddr,b at 2:00pm.

Health Services Division Secretary Md Anwar Hossain Howlader and senior officials of icddr,b will attend the inaugural function of the campaign while DGHS Director General Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam will preside over it.