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The United Nation's child agency UNICEF has vaccinated 1.3 million children against measles between the ages of nine and 10 in Bangladesh this September, reaching 98 per cent of the target, reports UNB.
"Measles can be deadly to children and infants, especially when it is contracted during times of crisis, such as the recent earthquake in Pakistan," said Louis-Georges Arsenault, the UNICEF Bangladesh representative.
The report released by PTI with New York dateline said the national plan to immunise all Bangladeshi children against measles involved more than 15,000 volunteers, 1,600 health workers and the setting up of 4,500 health centres.
The second phase of the campaign, which starts in about six months, will focus on the remaining 33.5 million children in Bangladesh, and require more than 300,000 volunteers to complete the process.
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