Manma (Kalikot), June 29: Kalikot district has been declared fully vaccinated and vaccination sustainable district. The district was announced as achieving this status on Sunday after all the nine local levels of the district were declared fully vaccinated and sustainable.
Dr. Ratnabir Sunar, member secretary of the District Vaccination Coordination Committee and Health Services Manager, said that the district has been declared as achieving full-vaccination status after ensuring that all children from birth to under five years old across the district received nine types of vaccination, the pregnant women were administered one and one for adolescent girls.
The district has been declared the third district in Karnali Province to achieve full vaccination status, under the slogan – ‘Using local resources, ownership, and participation to ensure full vaccination is our commitment’.
“This has been possible because of the contribution of female health volunteers, healthcare workers, and the local government,” he said.
Katak Bahadur Mahat, the vaccine focal person at the Health Service Office in Kalikot, said that there is a provision requiring that children from birth to 15 months should have received the vaccines listed in the immunization schedule to protect them from various diseases. There is also a provision to ensure full vaccination for children aged 16 to 59 months who missed any vaccines for some reason by tracking them through the local health office and completing all doses through search and vaccination campaigns.
“The target was to vaccinate 3,636 children. After completing that work, the district has been declared fully vaccinated and sustainable,” he added.
Om Prasad Paudel, Public Health Officer of the Karnali Province Vaccine Coordination Committee, said that after Dailekh and Surkhet, Kalikot has become the third district in the province to ensure full vaccination.
