Udaipur: To reduce infant mortality rate and to prevent various diseases, World Health Organization, under its Millennium Development Goals, has targeted to immunize world’s 90 percent of children by the year 2020. So far, the number has reached to 75 percent. The issue emerged during a seminar organized on Maternal and Child Health Day by Rotary Club of Udaipur. Paediatrician Dr DevendraSarin said that instead of DPT, a vaccine called Pentavalent Vaccine
must be given to children to save them from five diseases. Children must be vaccinated at all costs. The impact of a mother’s disease also affects a child’s health. So, to a prevent a child from getting various diseases like rotavirus, swine flu, chicken pox, rabies, etc., vaccines
have been made available. Chicken pox vaccine, if given once, the disease doesn’t make a comeback for 80-90 percent of the times. Course of rabies vaccine should be given once in a lifetime. If one once gets rabies, then the prevention is impossible. The vaccine is now available in the market, called Indradhanush, which will prevent 7 diseases. Gynaecologist Dr Arun Gupta said that it is unfair to blame a woman because it is both men and women responsible if they are childless. The
white discharge is a normal process but she should consult a doctor if the discharge is frequent and has odour, because it could be a symptom for serious illness. Gynaecologist Dr Lata Mehta said that menstruation in girls below 14 years of age is called premature menstruation which weakens the bones in later life. On this occasion, she also mentioned various reasons for menopause. Club chairman Dr B.L. Siroha said that the club has been considering opening a centre for regular vaccination so that a mother and child could be benefitted. At the end, club secretary Dr Narendra Kumar Dhing gave vote of thanks
