Fifteen leaders of different faith leaders met today at Bhopal and committed their support upcoming Measles Rubella Vaccination programme which will be launched on January 15 in Madhya Pradesh.
The meeting was organized by Spandan, Non-governmental organization with support of UNICEF, and Health department.
Dr Vandana Bhatia, made a presentation on measles rubella vaccine and importance of measles rubella vaccination.
She said that this is for children from nine months to fifteen years of age, irrespective of whether they have received MR vaccine earlier or not. We need to ensure that we cover all children and look for unreached children.
This time State Health Department has estimated that they will be covering two crores and thirty lakh children in that age group.
This is painless vaccine with autolock syringe.
Anil Soumitra of Spandan NGO shared the objective of the programme that this is part of engagement of faith based leaders on social issues and they have earlier given their support to Poshan Abhiyan, Sanitation and new born care.
Anil Gulati, Communication Specialist, UNICEF, Madhya Pradesh said that it is important to have support from you who have following and can help us take the message to communities.
Sanjay Singh, Communication for Development Specialist and Sujan Sarkar, Planning Monitoring Officer, UNICEF were present at the meet
Naziya khan, Noor Ullah Yusuf Zai, Shahar Kazi Guna, Kazi Anas Ali, Bhopal, Kazi Hashamat Ali, Shahar Kazi Bhind, BK Reena, Pt Ramesh Sharma, Parashuram Mandir, Fr Shahi E Stanislaus, Bhante Shakyaputra Sagar Thero, Gyani Harjeet Singh, Ajahar Beig, Sri Hari Narayan Karan, SP Singh, Gayatri pariwar, Laxminarayan Pandey, Rakesh Tiwari, SG Hasan, Anshul Upadhyay, Ritu Sharma, Deepshikha Harsh were leaders of different faith present at the meet.