The third phase of Mission Indradanush, meant to vaccinate children and pregnant women, will start on Tuesday. In this third phase of the mission all the children and women who missed the vaccination in the previous phase will be covered. State Vaccination Officer Santhosh Shukla said that under this campaign 13 districts will be covered. Notably, in the previous 10 stages more than 2.75 lakh sessions were conducted and more than 18.78 lakh children and pregnant women were vaccinated, he added.
The districts included in this phase are Alirajpur, Ashok Nagar, Chhatarpur, Damoh, Jhabua, Panna, Raisen, Rewa, Sagar, Satna, Tikamgarh, Umariya and Vidisha. In these districts in mere two stages more than 36 sessions were conducted and 2,26,370 children and 66,866 pregnant women were vaccinated.
For the vaccination in the Phase-3 of the campaign, micro-plan has been laid through which the team will get to places without access especially places like habitats, brick furnaces, construction sites and slums. There they will vaccinate children of the age zero to two for eight diseases and give pregnant women tetanus vaccine.
Any child deprived of the vaccine during the phase will be entered in the Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS) so that they could receive the vaccine in future. Shukla said that if there is someone left out from getting the vaccine the team will go and encourage them to get vaccinated.