Valenzuela City Health Department Holds Anti-Measles Mass Immunization

2014-01-09

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ANTI-MEASLES VACCINE
FILE PHOTO: A child receiving anti measles vaccine from a Valenzuela City health personnel in an earlier campaign against the viral disease on April 2011.

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IN THIS PHOTO:

ANTI-MEASLES VACCINE
FILE PHOTO: A child receiving anti measles vaccine from a Valenzuela City health personnel in an earlier campaign against the viral disease on April 2011.

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VACCINE PLUS VITAMIN A
Health authorities said children aged six to 59 months will be given free vaccines as well as Vitamin A supplements through a door-to-door campaign starting January 9.

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ONGOING CITY-WIDE IMMUNIZATION
A boy being given a measles vaccine at Brgy. Malinta Health Center, January 13, 2014. After the Department of Health (DOH) has declared a measles outbreak in Valenzuela City and to some other cities in Metro Manila, the City Health Department has since then conducting a city-wide free measles vaccination to children five years old and below.

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The Valenzuela City Health Office is calling on parents in the city to bring their children aged six months to five years old to health centers, and have them vaccinated against measles starting today.

This is to control the spread of measles in the city after the Department of Health (DOH) declared a measles outbreak in nine Metro Manila cities, including Valenzuela. Latest DOH data show a total of 744 cases in the region.

City Health Department OIC Dr. Jaime Exconde said three city residents have contracted the illness.

This has been the second time since December the office is holding a supplemental immunization against measles. The first time was done last December 26 and 27 and was held simultaneously with anti-measles immunization efforts by other Metro Manila local governments.

Besides the vaccination at health centers, local government nurses will also do door-to-door vaccination all over the city.

Each child will also be given Vitamin A supplements on top of the anti-measles vaccine, Dr. Exconde said.

The mass immunization will be conducted until the end of March.

Meanwhile, Mayor REX Gatchalian is prepping Valenzuela City’s 25 barangay health stations for benchmarking the city’s compliance to World Health Organization’s health service delivery system.

Successive ribbon cutting ceremonies will be staged in each of these stations as part of Mayor REX’s promotion of the “Five Pillars of Good Governance,” which will initiate on January 24 at Gen. T. de Leon Barangay Health Station.