On October 19-20, vaccination experts from the US CDC in Atlanta and the US CDC Office in Vietnam, along with experts from the National Expanded Immunization Program, made a working trip to assess the implementation of vaccination history checks and catch-up vaccinations for children entering preschool and primary schools in Thanh Hoa.
The delegation worked at several health stations and primary schools in the mountainous district of Ba Thuoc in Thanh Hoa province, where full vaccination coverage remains difficult.
US CDC experts discuss with medical staff at Ban Cong Commune Health Station (Ba Thuoc District) about vaccination safety
Regarding the work of checking the history and compensating for children in Thanh Hoa , Dr. Do Thanh Tung, Deputy Director of CDC Thanh Hoa , said that the health sector and the education sector of the province have both identified this as a key activity this year. 100% of communes, wards and towns need to complete the work of checking children's vaccination history by October at the latest.
Therefore, preschool and primary education facilities in the province closely coordinate with local health stations and parents in implementing policies and collecting information and vaccination records of children. Parents and caregivers have good awareness in coordinating with schools and vaccination facilities to collect vaccination information of children.
Commune health stations and district health centers compile the subjects needing additional doses and send the expected demand for vaccines and vaccination supplies to the provincial CDC this October to have a basis for proposing vaccination vaccines to the National Immunization Office.
"We want to ensure vaccination safety and achieve a rate of over 90% of children after screening being vaccinated with the required doses of vaccines; we are very interested in implementing this in mountainous and disadvantaged areas of the province," said the Deputy Director of CDC Thanh Hoa.
US CDC experts discuss vaccination records and implementation of catch-up vaccination for children in Thanh Hoa
Ms. Le Thi Kim Dung (Department of Education and Training of Thanh Hoa province) assessed that supplementary vaccination for preschool and primary school children is very necessary, helping children avoid the risk of disease and reduce the risk of epidemics in schools.
"Due to Covid-19 and the disruption of the supply of some vaccines in the expanded immunization program, in recent months, the vaccination rate of children has decreased. There is a 17-month-old child who has only received one dose of the "5-in-1" vaccine. This vaccine has not been available for many months, and the measles vaccine is also being interrupted. We are really worried that the disease will increase again in young children, because they have not been fully vaccinated," said Dr. Le Thien Phu, Deputy Head of the Department of Infectious Disease Control (CDC Thanh Hoa).
Early resupply of expanded immunization vaccines
According to the National Expanded Immunization Program, the Ministry of Health is urgently completing procedures to soon resupply the recently-lacking expanded immunization vaccines, allocating them to localities to vaccinate children from the last month of this year and early next year.
In Vietnam, every year 100,000 - 200,000 children are not fully vaccinated, posing a risk of disease transmission in the learning environment.
In 2023, vaccination history checks and catch-up vaccinations will be piloted in 12 provinces and cities in the North, Central and South regions; in 2024, it will be expanded to 30% of provinces and cities nationwide and from 2025, it will be deployed nationwide.
According to the US CDC, more than 130 countries have reviewed vaccinations, and some countries have introduced regulations requiring full vaccinations for children to attend school. This is to prevent disease outbreaks in schools and protect children's health.
The World Health Organization has recommended that countries implement vaccination history checks for school-age children as part of their strategy to eradicate, eliminate and control infectious diseases.
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