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Beyond the Vaccine: Public Health System's Revival in India


Tuesday, 9th February 2021 | 6:30 PM IST
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In 1977, smallpox eradication lead to improved health systems, trained manpower to administer vaccines, infrastructure and systems to store vaccines and a network for surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases. The lessons from this success were used universally to strengthen public healthcare, vaccination and develop a pool of public health professionals. In 1978, after it was declared free of smallpox, India launched the National Immunization Programme called the Expanded Programme of Immunization and since then has been one of the leading countries to introduce mass immunization measures for preventable diseases.
Although the Immunization programme in India has partially succeeded in reducing the burden of vaccine-preventable diseases; a significant proportion of them still exist. Moreover, there remains a wide gap in reported versus evaluated coverage. Now, with more than 16 lakh people already vaccinated ....

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