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News: National Sample Survey (July 2017-June 2018) has released a report titled “household social consumption related to health”.
Facts:
Key Highlights of the report:
- Full Immunisation: Across the country, only 59.2% of children under five years are fully immunised.
- Full immunisation means that a child receives a cocktail of eight vaccine doses in the first year of life: the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis; the measles vaccine; the oral polio vaccine (OPV) , DPT/pentavalent vaccine to protect a child from diphtheria among others.
- About 97% of children across the country received at least one vaccination mostly BCG and/or the first dose of OPV at birth.
- However, only 67% of children are protected against measles.Only 58% got their polio booster dose while 54% got their DPT booster dose.
- State wise: Manipur (75%), Andhra Pradesh (73.6%) and Mizoram (73.4%) recorded the highest rates of full immunisation.
- On the other hand, Nagaland has only 12% children who received all vaccinations followed by Puducherry(34%) and Tripura(39.6%).
- Government Hospitals: The vast majority of these vaccinations 95% in rural India and 86% in cities were carried out in government health facilities and primary health centres.
