Haryana Government on Friday launched Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine to keep children safe from pneumonia and ANMOL - ANM online application to keep all their data online in the state.
Health Minister Anil Vij while speaking after launching Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine and ANMOL – ANM online application in Panchkula near here said that as many as 2,735 ANMs of nine districts have been distributed this ANMOL tablet, in the first phase.
Vij said that every year, 40,000 children suffer from Pneumonia and this vaccine would prove beneficial for them. The market cost of this vaccine, which is given up to the age of nine months in three doses, is Rs 12,000, but this vaccine would be given free of cost to children in all government hospitals, he said.