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Routine Immunization Program in India Problems and Challeges

In order to ensure the control, eradication and elimination of diseases, routine immunization is extremely important. Since the Indian climatic condition is extremely disease-prone, one needs to embrace the latest advancements which have ushered into the vaccine and immunization arena. Vaccination initiatives can be made more effective through a routine immunization program in India.

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Poor RI Rate

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Unfortunately India has one of the lowest Routine Immunization rates in the World. The infant mortality rate in the country is extremely high, many children are still unimmunized and under-immunized.

Thus many children and pregnant women are susceptible to infectious diseases. Moreover, there are also many disparity in the immunization coverage among the several Indian states. The size of the country further affects routine immunization program in India.

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Factors which are hampering the growth of routine immunization

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•The success of the routine immunization program in India is thus dependent on various important factors. The first thing which is important in this regard is figuring out how to add newer vaccines in to the existing programs. It is also necessary to educate the ignorant people in this regard and educate them as to how they should utilize the available vaccines. In order to ensure the success of routine immunization, it’s effectiveness also has to be measured from time to time.

• When it comes to optimizing the reach of vaccines, one should try to understand the obstacles which stand in the way. In remote areas, no proper guidance is offered during routine immunization. In order to make people shed their reluctance and evoke a positive response, proper guidance should be offered prior vaccinations so that people became aware of the age recommendations and immunization locations. It is necessary for children to be administered vaccination for both common and uncommon diseases. Many fatal diseases are taken to be common and hence are taken with a pinch of salt. In order to correct the discrepancies in the routine immunization program in India, the problem has to be corrected from the grass-root level.

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• The World Health Organization has placed a greater emphasis in the immunization problems of the developing world. The advancements in technology has brought forward many solutions to diseases which were untreatable in the past.

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Hence, it should be aimed that the latest vaccines gets included in the routine immunization program in India. The idea should be to increase the VPD rather than just increasing the coverage rates.

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