Bhubaneswar: With 84 per cent coverage of full immunisation, Orissa has emerged as a lead performer in the country in immunisation coverage of children and pregnant women at national level.
Chief Secretary AP Padhi, who presided over a high-level meeting here recently, said the full package immunisation coverage in 29 districts was found more than 84 per cent.
Review showed as per National Family Health Survey-4 (NFHS4) of 2015-16, full immunisation coverage in Orissa was around 79 per cent against the national average of 62 per cent. The achievement of Orissa further scaled up to 84 per cent in the Integrated Child Health and Immunisation Survey (INCHIS) of 2016.
In a bid to ensure 100 per cent coverage of immunisation, the state government has directed the health and family welfare department officials to ensure total immunisation of all children and pregnant women on head count basis in the districts, where IMR and MMR rate was found high, official sources said Monday.
Since the full package immunisation coverage in 29 districts was found to be over 84 per cent, Padhi directed the department to expedite primary health-care network programmes in all urban local bodies.
It was decided to strengthen activities under Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) in one district and one ULB namely Ganjam and Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) because of comparatively less immunisation coverage.
Padhi directed expedient head count survey in all blocks of Ganjam districts and BMC for identification of children and pregnant women who missed one or other immunization out of the total immunization package.
Next only to Kerala, Orissa is the only state wherein one district and one ULB have been taken up under the mission. IMI is being implemented in those areas of the country where immunization coverage of 0-2 year children and pregnant mothers is less than 70 per cent.
IMI has been designed as a special national strategy to achieve more than 90 per cent of full immunization coverage by 2020. The target group of the Mission is 0-2 year children and all pregnant women. It envisages sustaining the achievement beyond 2020 through regular immunization programmes.
Orissa was among lead performing states in pulse Polio immunisation campaign launched in 1995, Hepatitis-B programme implemented in 2011, Pentavalent vaccination and Maternal & Neonatal Tetanus Elimination (MNTE) programme in 2015 and Injectible polio immunization drive introduced in 2016. It was decided to start Missile Rubella campaign in January, 2018 in Orissa.
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