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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Wednesday, august 2, 2017
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BACOLOD City – The City Health Office (CHO) wants to vaccinate all public school students in the city.
The vaccination program will cover Grade 1 to Grade 7 students, said CHO medical officer III Rosalie Deocampo, also the National Immunization Program coordinator.
Last year, about 96 percent of students had been injected with vaccines for diphtheria, tetanus, measles, and rubella or German measles.
The CHO launched the school-based immunization program yesterday at the Bacolod City Government Center as part of the nationwide immunization program held every August in collaboration with the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Interior and Local Government.
Deocampo said DOH in 2014 conducted a trial immunization program in Bacolod where 84 percent of the students’ population was covered.
“That was the time when measles dropped to 300, then seven, then three and now zero,” Deocampo added./PN
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