Japanese Encephalitis vaccination in Haryana

Chandigarh, Mar 13 (UNI) A Japanese Encephalitis (JE) vaccination campaign will be launched by Haryana Health Department to safeguard children between the age group of one to 15 years from this vector borne disease.

Haryana Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary (Health) Urvashi Gulati said the campaign would be launched next month covering high risk JE endemic districts of Karnal and Kurukshetra in the first phase where more than eight lakh children would be vaccinated.

The remaining two JE endemic districts of Kaithal and Ambala would be covered in the second phase.

She said the Central Government had identified about 101 JE endemic districts in the country, out of which four were from Haryana.

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