The Davao City Health Office is conducting an 'SBI Expansion' campaign in malls to increase vaccination rates among children. The program aims to address vaccine hesitancy and ensure children are protected against preventable diseases like measles, rubella, and HPV.
TO GIVE children better protection against vaccine-preventable diseases, the City Health Office called on parents to have their children vaccinated through the “ School-Based Immunization expansion” being held in malls this month.Dr.
Out of 10,235 first-graders students in the second district, only 4,228 received the vaccine. In the third district, of 11,182 Grade 1 students, only 5,091 received vaccination.Only 3,829 of the 10,796 Grade 7 pupils in the first district received the MRTD immunization. In the second district, only 3,117 of the 9,219 students got the MRTD vaccine, while in the third district, of 11,075 pupils, only 5,128 were vaccinated.
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