Mumbai: BMC will give MR vaccines to slum kids next

After the launch of measles-rubella (MR) vaccination in schools across the state, Mumbai's civic body has now started approaching the small communities across the city to reach out to as many children as possible.

So far, over 12 lakh children have been vaccinated and over 2 crore children have been vaccinated across the state. The campaign was started in Maharashtra on November 27, 2018. The civic body and the state government have released figures till December 31, 2018.

"Next phase of the vaccination campaign has been started by reaching out to the communities through various methods. Besides reaching out to the children with the help of schools, we will be reaching out communities by house campaigning for street children," said one of the officials from the health department.

In Mumbai, school children were vaccinated in the first phase of the campaign. Around 336 schools had participated and more than 12 lakh children were vaccinated.

In the next phase, children living in slums and on the streets will be vaccinated.

At the beginning of the campaign, the citizens did not give a good response. At the municipal level of the campaign, BMC had managed to vaccinate over 12 lakh children till the age group of 15-year-old.

In Pune, around 12 lakh children have been vaccinated, in Nagpur 4 lakh children have been vaccinated, in Solapur 7 lakh kids, and in Nashik, around 11 lakh children have been vaccinated.