Mysuru: In a bid to achieve the target of full immunisation, the District Health and Family Welfare Department will be launching an Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) 2.0 Programme across the district from Dec.2.
Announcing this at a press meet at his Office in Nazarbad here yesterday, District Health Officer (DHO) Dr. Venkatesh said that ASHA workers were assigned the task of collecting information on the block-wise target of children and pregnant women to be vaccinated during the IMI drive and also the coverage data during the rounds of activity. Based on the data collected, the Department has identified 283 high risk areas in the district, where 1,694 children and 466 pregnant women remained untouched by the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP), he said.
