Saturday November 3 2007 09:59 IST
Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to prepare a micro-plan for immunisation of all children.
A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here on Thursday.
The Chief Minister reviewed the success of the immunisation programme at the meeting. A joint survey report by the Centre and Unicef has established that Orissa is number the two state in the country in the implementation of the programme.
While the success rate of BCG and DPT-3 at the national level has been 79.1 and 60.6 percent
respectively, in Orissa the two schemes have achieved 95 and 80.2 percent success.
Centre has not achieved much breakthrough in OPV-3 and measles containment programme but these schemes have succeeded in Orissa with 60.7 and 82 percent coverage. The success rate of Centre in the above programme is 54.4 and 61.8 percent. Success in vitamin-A administration and pulse polio programmes has also been spectacular in Orissa.
While the State has achieved 82.1 percent coverage in administration of vitamin-A among the children, in the pulse polio programme the coverage is 96.7 percent.
The success rate of the two schemes in the Centre has been 51.4 and 94.8 percent respectively. The national family health survey has also come out with similar findings.
The awareness and knowledge of the mothers on immunisation programme is more in Orissa compared to other states. While the all India average is 30.4 percent, it is 54.8 percent in the State. It has also come to the fore that the general caste and Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Caste people have shown equal interest in the implementation of the immunisation programme.
Welcoming the role played by the health workers for the success of the immunisation programme, the Chief Minister asked the departmental authorities to make provision of incentives for them. He underscored the need for strengthening the monitoring system for continuing the success rate. He said that special attention should be given to districts in which the success rate is low.
It was decided that persons having practical knowledge about immunisation will be appointed in KBK, Gajapati, Kandhmal, Boudh and Keonjhar districts. The immunisation programme will be extended to all the districts in the next phase.
Among others, Minister of State for Health Duryodhan Majhi, Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister Bijay Kumar Patnaik, Health Secretary Chinmoy Basu, director of the National Rural Health Mission Sushil Kumar Lohani and senior officials attended the meeting.
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