INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU, APRIL 5The Ministry of Health and Population is to innoculate 7.5 million children against typhoid.
93 percent of target group vaccinated against COVID-19
citizens should be vaccinated against COVID -19 by local level elections'
Addressing a press meet organized here today, Chief of the Child Health and Vaccination Section at the Department of
Health, Sagar Dahal, said children between the age of one year three months to 15 years would be administered the vaccines against typhoid
The vaccination program will be conducted from April 8 till May 1
He said the typhoid vaccine would be administered for one time.
GAVI, the global alliance for vaccines, has provided the
typhoid vaccines free of cost
Nepal is the first country in South Asia to administer the vaccine against typhoid and the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended
vaccination against typhoid in other countries with typhoid prevalence along with Nepal.The vaccines will be administered at 56,429
vaccination centres and schools throughout the country
Ten thousand health workers and 112 thousand 858 volunteers will be mobilized for this.Section chief Dahal said that going by the data for
the last five years, typhoid infection has been found in over 450 thousand people in Nepal
According to him, it was estimated that there were 82 thousand 449 typhoid patients in 2019
Although the typhoid infection is seen in people of all age groups, it is more prevalent among children below 15 years.The Director General
of the Department of Health Services, Dr Dipendra Raman Singh pledged to eliminate typhoid through sanitation and vaccinations.One thousand
sixty two people per 100,000 tests have been infected with the infection, according to a study.Stating that the vaccine had been put to use
only after its clinical trial, director of the Family Welfare Division, Dr Bibek Lal said it requires only one dose and it is 85 percent
Typhoid conjugate vaccine being administered in Nepal has been approved by the World Health Organisation.Common side effects post
vaccination include fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, stomach pain and skin rash among others
However, the Department has urged parents to take their children to vaccination centers nearby for the vaccine not being afraid of such
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