New Delhi |HLive
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced on Thursday ,that four new vaccines will be introduce in India as part of a government programme to reduce child mortality by two-thirds by next year and meet global polio eradication targets.
The new vaccines to be introduced as part of the Universal Immunization Programme (UIP), government will be providing free vaccines against 13 life threatening diseases to 27 million children annually, the largest birth cohort in the world.
Vaccines against rotavirus, rubella and polio will collectively expedite India’s progress on meeting the Millennium Development Goal 4 targets to reduce child mortality by two-thirds by the year 2015 and meet global polio eradication targets.
The government will now ensure that the benefits of vaccination reach all sections of the society, as social and economic.
Till now these vaccines are available with private practitioners only.
“The introduction of four new lifesaving vaccines will play a key role in reducing the childhood and infant mortality and morbidity in the country,” Modi said.
