Mother and child healthcare: Awareness week to start from Monday

More than five million children and pregnant women will be administered preventive vaccination.


Our Correspondent May 18, 2013

HYDERABAD: More than five million children and pregnant women will be administered preventive vaccination during the upcoming maternal and child healthcare awareness week which will be observed from May 20 in Hyderabad.

Health and hygiene awareness activities will also be a part of the week-long drive, said Dr Saifullah Qaimkhani, provincial coordinator of the National Programme for family planning and basic health.

Qaimkhani said that over 2.74 million infants of up to the age of five will be immunised against polio. Another 1.64 million will be given oral medicines for stomach diseases.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 18th, 2013.

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