Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Sandeep Chaudhary reviewed the preparations for making the third and final phase of the Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) 5.0 successful. The campaign will start in the district from October 9. Presiding over the meeting of the District Task Force at his office here on Thursday, he directed the officers concerned to prepare the micro plan as soon as possible in which special emphasis should be laid on covering children from birth to five years of age and pregnant women who are missing regular vaccination. The CMO also gave emphasis on high risk, urban slums and remote areas in the campaign to ensure 100 per cent vaccination of those families who are indifferent towards vaccination. “Maximum publicity regarding the locations of vaccination sessions should be done through call slips, so that families can easily get their children and pregnant women vaccinated,” he said. ACMO (Immunisation) Dr AK Maurya said that all preparations for the campaign have been completed and all superintendents and in-charge medical officers have been directed to ensure 100 per cent vaccination of all the left out children and pregnant women in this last phase of the campaign so that in future there is no need to run anymore such campaign. He said that regular vaccination sessions are being conducted in the district every Wednesday and Saturday. Despite this due to some reasons many children and pregnant women are left out. Vaccination protects children and pregnant women from serious diseases as well as complications from vaccine-preventable congenital diseases and it develops immunity in children, he added. In the meeting, ACMOs Dr SS Kanojia, Dr Sanjay Rai, Deputy CMOs Dr Amit Kumar Singh, Dr Nikunj Kumar Verma, Senior Medical Officer Dr Yatish Bhuvan Pathak, superintendents and medical officer in-charges of CHCs and PHCs, DHEIO Harivansh Yadav, DUHC Ashish Singh and representatives of NHM, WHO, UNICEF, UNDP and others were also present. Meanwhile, a one-day training workshop was organised on the topic ‘TB Mukt Panchayat Abhiyan’ and new initiative ‘TB Family Care Giver’ under the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP) and Prime Minister TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan at the same place. On the occasion, 28 health workers and five gram panchayat officers were made master trainers. This training is being conducted in two batches and in the next (second) batch of 31 health workers and three gram panchayat officers were trained on Friday. In the training, District Programme Coordinator (DPC) of NTEP Sanjay Chaudhary, District PPM Coordinator Naman Gupta and State Level Observer from WHO Dr VJ Vinod gave detailed information to all the participants about the TB Mukt Panchayat Abhiyan. DPC Sanjay Chaudhary said that till now a treatment supporter was an ASHA worker but now to take care of the patient, the responsibility of caregiver will be assigned to his/her family or someone close to him.