Performance of Special Immunization week in Gujarat state in an imprecise way
Journal Title: Healthline - Year 2015, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
Background:Vaccination has been established as an important specific protective measure against a few fatal or disabling diseases of childhood. It requires regular field work and record keeping at health worker level and data processing and decision making at higher level to organize routine vaccination activities in a manner which optimally covers beneficiaries, takes in to account vaccine wastages and reduces workloads of all kinds of health functionaries and hence allowing them to take care of other aspects of primary health care. Objective: To assess the appropriateness of SIWA(Special Immunization Week Activities) in Navsari district of south Gujarat.Method:Participant observation method, cross- sectional study in Tribal blocks of Navsari District in Pre monsoon Period (first week of June 2013)Result: 20 SIWA booths were attended and observed 5 hours/day for 6 days.30 house to house activities visited. Eligible children benefited -5.Total supervisory staffs deployed were 20.Moreover, no health worker could give a list of expected eligible children for that session. A few sites did not have either a Measles / BCG vaccine vial. There was no person to person contact or local publicity for information regarding SIWA and was not conducted over conventional sites or newer appropriate locations. Conclusion:Demographic events reflected as population movements, immigration and accumulation of labourers must be taken in account before execution of SIWA in any region. This state is in position to relook for need assessment, rescheduling of SIWA and thinking over cost effectiveness and impact on Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPDs).
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Shiv Kumar Yadav , Abhay Kavishwar , S. L. Kantharia
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