Providing 500,000 doses of 5-in-1 vaccine for free vaccination of children
Tuesday, 23/04/2024 10:49 (GMT+7)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Duong Thi Hong, Deputy Director of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE), said that just delivered the first batch of 500,000 doses of 5-in-1 DPT-HBV-Hib vaccine to Pasteur Institutes across the country.
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| Providing 5-in-1 vaccination for children at Binh Yen Commune Health Station, Son Duong District, Tuyen Quang Province. (Source: CPV) |
Pasteur institutes will shortly distribute the vaccine to all 63 provinces and cities to vaccinate children in the next two months.
The vaccine is given free to children in the National Expanded Programme on Immunization.
Small children are recommended to receive the 5-in-12 vaccine shots against five child killers - diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, hepatitis B, and haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)
The 500,000 does are among the 2.8 million doses of the 5-in-1 vaccine that the Ministry of Health has just completed procedures for procurement and bidding. Last August, the ministry was allocated funding to buy vaccines in the Expanded Programme on Immunization.
The 5-in-1 DPT-VGB-Hib vaccine is used to prevent five child killers - diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, hepatitis B, and haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib). Small children are susceptible to these dangerous infectious diseases that can affect their health, development and even lead to death./.
Compiled by BTA