Intensified Mission Indradhanush 3.0 Launched

The Union Health Minister, Dr Harsh Vardhan, has launched the Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) 3.0.

Highlights

• The mission will be conducted in two rounds.
• The first round will start from February 22, 2021 while the second phase will start from March 22, 2021.
• It will run across 250 districts or urban areas across the 29 States or Union Territories.
• Apart from that, the Minister also launched the IMI 3.0 portal and released Operational Guidelines for it.
• He also launched the awareness material or IEC package developed under the campaign.

Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) 3.0

• The IMI 3.0 initiative was launched by central government in order to provide immunization to the pregnant women and children free of cost in India.
• The scheme will strengthen and re-energize immunization programme.
• It will help in achieve full immunization coverage for children and pregnant women rapidly.
• This mission also aims to reach the unreached population. It will reach to them with all the available vaccines under the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP).

Mission Indradhanush

• This Mission was launched in December 2014 with the aim of fully immunizing unvaccinated or partially vaccinated children under UIP.
• The scheme targets children aged under 2 years and pregnant women for immunization.
• The mission incorporated immunization programme against 12 Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (VPD) namely, Whooping cough, diphtheria, polio, tetanus, meningitis, tuberculosis, hepatitis B, pneumonia, Haemophilus influenzae type B infections, rotavirus vaccine, Japanese encephalitis (JE), measles-rubella (MR) and pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV).
• The rate of immunization coverage under the initiative has increased to 6.7% per year through the first two phases of ‘Mission Indradhanush’.

Intensified Mission Indradhanush

This mission was launched in 2017 to reach child aged under two years and pregnant women who were left uncovered under the routine immunisation programme. Under this mission, greater focus was given on urban areas which was left under the Mission Indradhanush.

Month: Current Affairs - February, 2021