Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque on Saturday inaugurated the upcoming National Measles-Rubella (MR) Campaign 2020 on Dhaka Shishu Hospital premises by releasing balloons and administering MR vaccine among a few children.
Speaking at the event Maleque said, “Bangladesh already conducted several measles-rubella campaigns in the past. But in recent years the number of measles & rubella cases as well as the number of measles-rubella outbreak has increased. To mitigate this situation, we have planned to conduct another Measles-Rubella Campaign from March 18, 2020 to April 11, 2020.”
Through this campaign, a total of 3.40 crore children aged from 9 months to under 10 years will be given one dose of MR vaccine each across the country.
He continued: the government has already completed all the required steps to implement the upcoming National Measles-Rubella Campaign-2020.
To make this campaign successful the most important factor now is to ensure spontaneous public participation, the minister said.
He asked for full cooperation from all the print, electronic and online media and requested the representatives to provide their utmost effort to showcase the upcoming MR Campaign-2020 so that the country can achieve the measles and rubella elimination target by 2023.
