{"id":88298,"date":"2019-12-19T02:21:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T20:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=88298"},"modified":"2019-12-19T02:21:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T20:51:31","slug":"78-immunization-coverage-in-arunachal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/12\/19\/78-immunization-coverage-in-arunachal\/","title":{"rendered":"78% immunization coverage in Arunachal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Dec 18:<\/strong> Only 78% of children in Arunachal Pradesh are covered under the Universal Immunization Programme against the national average of 87%, says a survey.<br \/>\nThe low vaccination coverage can be attributed to mixed belief systems and lack of awareness among people, a senior health official said.<br \/>\nAccording to a coverage evaluation survey carried out in 13 districts of the state in 2018, Longding and Upper Subansiri districts had less than 40 per cent coverage, the NHM&#8217;s State Immunization Officer Dr D Padung said.<br \/>\nSix districts had immunization coverage of over 70% and the remaining five districts had more than 60% coverage.<br \/>\nDeputy Director (IEC) O Thamphang said that the target was to attain more than 90% coverage by 2020.<br \/>\nMedical Officer (Immunization) Dr Tage Taka said that the states target to vaccinate at least 90% of the children who were yet to be vaccinated had become ineffective due to lack of awareness and apprehension of adverse effect following immunization among the parents. PTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Dec 18: Only 78% of children in Arunachal Pradesh are covered under the Universal Immunization Programme against the national average of 87%, says a survey. The low vaccination coverage can be attributed to mixed belief systems and lack of awareness among people, a senior health official said. According to a coverage evaluation survey carried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}