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A one-day workshop on National Quality Assurance Standards (NQAS) for Adverse Event Following Immunization (AEFI) for medical officers, CHOs, Staff Nurses, ANMs, LHVs and Vaccinators was held on June 2, at CMO conference hall, Kohima. A press release by CMO, Kohima Dr. Tumchobeni informed that the workshop was conducted by Chief Medical Officer, Kohima along with district health society, NHM.
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Health and Family Welfare (H&FW) department Mon conducted district-level workshops on “Routine Immunization (RI) strengthening”, and “Vaccine Preventable Disease (VDP) Surveillance and Measles and Rubella (MR) elimination” on May 24-25.
The vaccine is being introduced initially in Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Odisha and will be expanded to the entire country.
"After the training, I started to use open-ended questions....I also try to be more empathetic, to show that I understand what they are going through, to affirm their strengths and provide encouragement, even in [vaccine] refusers - something that I hadn't been doing before." - physician The Vaccine-preventable Diseases and Immunization Programme (