On February 3, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health announced that it had just issued a plan to implement catch-up vaccinations in the expanded immunization program for children in Ho Chi Minh City in 2024. The purpose is to increase the rate of immunity to prevent infectious diseases with vaccines, maintain the results achieved in the expanded immunization program, and move towards controlling and eliminating some diseases with vaccines.
Children need to be fully vaccinated to prevent infectious diseases.
According to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health, the supply of vaccines in the expanded immunization program has been interrupted recently. Specifically, from May 2022, the supply of measles, diphtheria, and whooping cough vaccines will be stopped; from October to November 2022 and until August 2023, the supply of tuberculosis, measles, rubella, polio, Japanese encephalitis, and 5-in-1 (SII) vaccines will be stopped.
According to the report of the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control, as of January 15, 2024, for the 2023 plan, the full vaccination rate for children under 1 year old (children born in 2022) only reached 93.7%, 1.3% short of the target of 95%.
The results of the 2022 and 2021 plan for catch-up vaccination (children born in 2021 and 2020) have not yet reached the scale in all wards, communes and towns (although the full vaccination rate has been achieved on a city-wide scale).
In addition, the vaccination rate for many other vaccines has not yet reached the target, such as the second dose of measles, the fourth dose of diphtheria - whooping cough - tetanus...
"The results of vaccination in the expanded immunization program have improved but have not yet reached the set rate. The risk of vaccine-preventable infectious disease outbreaks is real if active measures are not promptly implemented to promote catch-up vaccination of children who have not been vaccinated or have not received enough doses of vaccines," the Department of Health said.
Therefore, in parallel with the annual routine expanded immunization plan implemented by the units, the Department of Health develops a plan to inject vaccines in the expanded immunization program for children in the area in 2024 (vaccinating children born in 2023).
Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health has deployed catch-up vaccinations at 100% of ward, commune and town health stations in 22 districts and Thu Duc City.
According to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health, as of February 1, 2024, 626 facilities in Ho Chi Minh City have announced that they are eligible to vaccinate.
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