Experts mull measles response in Punjab
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Pakistan’s leading experts on paediatrics and immunization have recommended enhancing measles vaccination in Lahore and Rawalpindi as Punjab prepares to commemorate World Immunization Week from April 24 to 30.
The EPI programme called renowned names from public health and academia in the meeting of the Steering Committee at the Emergency Operations Centre in the provincial capital on Wednesday to review surveillance data and plan outbreak response.
The meeting reviewed plan of activities for the World Immunization Week. The theme for the year 2023 is “Big Catch-Up”.
Dr. Gondal said, “We have deployed resources based on measles surveillance data in selected Union Councils of Lahore and Rawalpindi. In sync with the theme of the World Immunization Week this year, EPI Punjab has already started the large-scale Integrated Outreach Activity to vaccinate each and every child.”
Punjab EPI proposed revisions in the vaccination schedule based on the data available. Ex-chairman of NITAG assured full support to Punjab if the case was supplemented with more evidence.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 20th, 2023.