Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
Comment: Karnataka has a population of over 50 million, so probably between a half and one million children are born each year - 11,000 vaccinated is a very small drop in the ocean.
Immunisation surveillance on the cards
Rashmi Menon, Bangalore, Dec 31, DHNS:
The department of health will launch a sentinel surveillance model for vaccination against preventable childhood infectious diseases from January 2011.
An expert group constituted by the Union health ministry, which studied the Union government?s initiative, felt that the surveillance would assess and evaluate the magnitude of diseases across the country. It will also provide assistance in collecting data on diphtheria, measles, meningitis, Japanese encephalitis and diarrhoea. The total budget required to set up sentinel surveillance units across the country is stated to be Rs 1,056.6 crore.
More than 11,000 children are being immunised for nine diseases in Karnataka every year, and yet large numbers of children continue to fall prey to infectious diseases.The sentinel surveillance units will be set up at 30 medical colleges or tertiary care hospitals that have respective 30 district hospitals linked to them. These units will collect information on meningitis, measles and enteric fever. Bangalore Medical College has been proposed as one of the 30 sentinel sites in Karnataka.
For diphtheria, case data will be gathered at selected infectious disease hospitals. As for diarrhoea, pneumonia, influenza and whooping cough, few designated centres will do research based surveillance and details of Japanese encephalitis will be collected at the existing sentinel sites under National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme. The sentinel units will focus on time and season of the disease outbreak, age and gender of cases, geographic distribution, vaccination status for suspected diseases and laboratory data. Doctors at outpatient units will be asked to maintain records of suspected cases and paediatricians will be sensitised.
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http://www.deccanherald.com/content/125323/immunisation-surveillance-cards.html
Immunisation surveillance on the cards
Rashmi Menon, Bangalore, Dec 31, DHNS:
The department of health will launch a sentinel surveillance model for vaccination against preventable childhood infectious diseases from January 2011.
An expert group constituted by the Union health ministry, which studied the Union government?s initiative, felt that the surveillance would assess and evaluate the magnitude of diseases across the country. It will also provide assistance in collecting data on diphtheria, measles, meningitis, Japanese encephalitis and diarrhoea. The total budget required to set up sentinel surveillance units across the country is stated to be Rs 1,056.6 crore.
More than 11,000 children are being immunised for nine diseases in Karnataka every year, and yet large numbers of children continue to fall prey to infectious diseases.The sentinel surveillance units will be set up at 30 medical colleges or tertiary care hospitals that have respective 30 district hospitals linked to them. These units will collect information on meningitis, measles and enteric fever. Bangalore Medical College has been proposed as one of the 30 sentinel sites in Karnataka.
For diphtheria, case data will be gathered at selected infectious disease hospitals. As for diarrhoea, pneumonia, influenza and whooping cough, few designated centres will do research based surveillance and details of Japanese encephalitis will be collected at the existing sentinel sites under National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme. The sentinel units will focus on time and season of the disease outbreak, age and gender of cases, geographic distribution, vaccination status for suspected diseases and laboratory data. Doctors at outpatient units will be asked to maintain records of suspected cases and paediatricians will be sensitised.
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http://www.deccanherald.com/content/125323/immunisation-surveillance-cards.html