Context:
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare concluded all 3 rounds of Intensified Mission Indradhanush 5.0 (IMI 5.0) Campaign.
- All States/UTs except Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Punjab concluded all 3 rounds.
About the IMI 5.0 campaign:
- Aim – To enhance immunization coverage for all vaccines provided under the Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) as per the National Immunization Schedule (NIS).
- It ensures that routine immunization services reach the missed-out and dropped-out children and pregnant women across the country.
- It is being conducted across all the districts in the country and includes children up to 5 years of age (Previous campaigns included children up to 2 years).
- Special focus is on improvement of Measles and Rubella vaccination coverage to eliminate them by 2023.
- It leverages the U-WIN digital platform for Routine Immunization in a pilot mode.
About Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP):
- Launch: 1978 as expanded Immunisation Program
- Renamed as UIP in 1985 when reached beyond urban areas
- Provides free of cost against 12 vaccine preventable diseases –
- Nationally against 9 diseases – Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus, Polio, Measles, Rubella, severe form of Childhood Tuberculosis, Hepatitis B and Meningitis & Pneumonia caused by Hemophilus Influenza type B
- Sub-nationally against 3 diseases – Rotavirus diarrhoea, Pneumococcal Pneumonia and Japanese Encephalitis
- Major milestones – Elimination of polio in 2014
Mission Indradhanush:
- Launch: 2014
- Purpose – To expand full immunization coverage in India.
- Ministry: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW)
- Aim – To immunise all children under the age of 2 years, as well as all pregnant women, against seven vaccine-preventable diseases.
- Objective – To rapidly increase the full immunization coverage to 90%.
- One of the flagship schemes under Gram Swaraj Abhiyan and Extended Gram Swaraj Abhiyan.
- Intensified mission indradhanush (IMI 4.0): conducted in 416 districts, including 75 districts identified for Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav across 33 States/UTs.
A total of 5.06 crore children and 1.25 crore pregnant women have been cumulatively vaccinated till date under Mission Indradhanush.
Source: PIB
Previous Year Question
Consider the following diseases:
1. Diphtheria
2. Chickenpox
3. Smallpox
Which of the above diseases has/have been eradicated in India?
[UPSC Civil Services Exam – 2014 Prelims]
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 3 only
(c) 1, 2 and 3
(d) None
Answer: (c)
