Mission Indradhanush, a campaign to reach the left out and dropped out children of vaccination will be launched on October 7 and will cover 25 districts of Madhya Pradesh, said Mission Director of National Health Mission (NHM), Faiz Ahmed Kidwai.
While talking to media persons here on Monday, Kidwai said that in first round a total of 74,190 sessions were held and immunizing 4,53,356 children, 1,47,955 children fully immunised and 1,39,648 pregnant women received ante natal TT vaccination in last three Mission Indradhanush rounds.
On the occasion, Principal Secretary of Health and Family Welfare department Gauri Singh said that monitoring of Mission Indradhanush will be done like election rounds and we would have daily monitoring done and would ask SDM in blocks to make sure that they have monitoring of the rounds in the blocks.
Dr Santosh Shukla, Deputy Director of Immunization said that ‘campaign entails organising fixed and mobile session sites in pre-identified high risk areas in focus districts. Each phase will last for 4 rounds from the 7th of every month for seven days. The campaign will target pregnant women and children under 2 years of age. He added that the key components Mission Indradhanush are meticulous operational and communication planning which include; identification of high risk areas, trainings, social mobilization/ communication and daily monitoring.
Anil Gulati Communication Specialist UNICEF, Madhya Pradesh shared that UNICEF is supporting communication planning, media engagement, will have social mobilisation monitors from UP and Bihar to go in each district to monitor social mobilisation activities and telecaller for monitoring MI activities. Dr OP Tiwari, State Team leader WHO, MP shared that WHO is supporting technical supervision and reach out to identified high risk areas. UNDP, IAP, IMA, Rotary, DFID are also supporting the Mission Indradhanush rounds. Dr Navneet Kothari Director IEC Bureau of Health Department was also present at the meet.