A probe committee has been formed to investigate the death of a 13-year-old schoolboy a day after receiving a vaccine dose under the ongoing nationwide Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine campaign.
Bangladesh government, with support from UNICEF, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and WHO, on Sunday launched the nationwide Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine campaign.
A month-long nationwide typhoid vaccination campaign is going to begin today.
The government is set to launch the country鈥檚 first-ever typhoid vaccination campaign on October 12, as health assistants suspended their indefinite strike on its sixth day on Monday...
THE government has set an ambitious target of administering typhoid vaccines to 50 million children and adolescents, aged between nine months and 15 years, under an Expanded Programme on Immunisation campaign that would begin on October 12. But the response to the campaign has so far been reserved. The Directorate General of Health Services says that..
The government for the first time has set an ambitious target to administer typhoid vaccine to some five crore children and adolescents amid pervasive public hesitation.
A total of five crore children will be vaccinated against typhoid under the Expanded Programme on Immunisation.
An unidentified viral fever is sweeping Dhaka and other districts in an alarming manner, infecting entire families and overwhelming hospitals, while the country has already been battling the outbreak of Covid-19, dengue, chikungunya, and typhoid.
