Measles vaccination campaign to begin on Sunday: Health Minister

Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Md. Sakhawat Hossain today said a nationwide emergency measles vaccination

campaign will begin from next Sunday [April 05].

“Children aged 6 months to 10 years will be administered the vaccine starting from Sunday,” he said while briefing the journalists at Bangladesh

Secretariat here today. News BSS

Routine immunization activities under the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) will continue alongside the campaign, he added.

In the briefing, the minister said that the vaccines and syringes will be collected and distributed across the country between Thursday and Friday. To ensure the smooth implementation of the drive, leave for all health workers

at the field level have been cancelled, he added.

Addressing preparedness, the minister noted that adequate ventilator support is available to face measles cases and hospitals have been equipped with the necessary number of beds.