The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Harish Rawat launched the second phase of ‘Mission Indradhanush’ in four districts of State at Doon women hospital here on Wednesday.
The mission aims to achieve 100 per cent immunisation of children in these districts. The CM launched the scheme by administering vaccines to some new born babies. Speaking on the occasion Rawat said that health of every child is important so that the State Government wishes to make the total immunisation drive a complete success.
He appealed the people to bring their infants to health centre for immunization. Rawat said that four districts of Dehradun, Tehri Garhwal, Uttarkashi and Udham Singh Nagar would be covered in the II phase. He informed that the III Phase would start on November 07and IV phase would commence on December 07. In the first phase the scheme was implemented in Haridwar district which the health department officials term as a success.
The Chief Minister wished the medical health and family welfare department success in this endeavor.The parliamentary secretary and Rajpur road MlA, Rajkumar said that the scheme would be beneficial to the poor people of the state. He appreciated the efforts of Harish Rawat government for improving the health services of the State.
Under the II phase of the mission 297 districts across the country are earmarked where extensive campaign for immunizing the children and pregnant women from eight fatal diseases would be undertaken for seven days from October 07. The department has constituted task forces at the level of state, district and block level. The I phase of the mission was undertaken in Haridwar district in the months of May, June and July in which 14880 pregnant women and 50729 children were immunized. The effort of the state health department in I phase was appreciated by the Union Government.
The programme was also attended by the Principal Secretary Om Prakash, secretary health Bhupender Kaur Olakh, Director
General (DG) health services Dr R P Bhatt and others. After the ceremony the Chief Minister inspected the Doon Women hospital and interacted with the hospital staff and patients.