New Delhi: The Union Government on Monday launched the second phase of the ambitious “Indradhanush” immunisation programme focusing on 352 districts.
Union Health Minister J P Nadda interacted with health ministers and department secretaries of states through video-conferencing and said his Ministry aims to achieve full immunisation of more than 90 per cent children by 2020.
‘Mission Indradhanush’ aims at fully immunising more than 89 lakh children who are either unvaccinated or partially vaccinated and those who have not been covered during routine immunisation for various reasons.
The Mission aims to immunize them against seven life-threatening but vaccine-preventable diseases — diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, tuberculosis, polio, measles and hepatitis-B.
In the second phase, 352 districts have been selected including 279 mid-priority districts, 33 from North-East states and 40 districts from the phase one, where large number of missed-out children were detected.
