Vaccine cold room inaugurated in Lasbela

Field chief of UNICEF Balochistan said 6,000 oral cholera vaccines were given to prevent it in flood-affected areas

QUETTA:

Field Chief of United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Balochistan Gerida J Barukla on Thursday inaugurated the vaccine cold room in the flood-affected district Lasbela under the UNICEF Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) programme.

DHQ Dr Imran and other officers participated in the opening ceremony while talking to the officers of each health department.

The field chief of UNICEF Balochistan said that 6,000 oral cholera vaccines were given to prevent the disease in the flood-affected areas of Lasbela district.

Vaccination in cholera hotspots plays an important role in early prevention of outbreak.

UNICEF was working on this project in collaboration with Balochistan Health Department, she said adding that UNICEF's OCV programme aims to reduce cholera deaths by 90 per cent till 2030.

Gerida said that in 2018, the pace of measures against cholera across the world became very fast, a resolution was passed by the World Health Assembly in 2018 with the aim to control 90 per cent of cholera deaths till 2030.

Preventive OCV use to reduce the burden of cholera, prevent its spread and protect people.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 19^th, 2022.