Bangka Regency Government Announces 2022 National Child Immunization Month

BANGKA BELITUNG - The Bangka Regency Government of the Bangka Belitung Islands Province has launched the 2022 National Child Immunization Month (BIAN) to protect children from various diseases that can be prevented by immunization. children in the area are protected from various diseases and grow up healthy. As the next generation of the nation, said the Regent, children are assets owned and must be protected by parents as well as possible. "I ask all parents to immediately take their children to the post office. Health services are spread in sub-districts or villages to get immunization services," explained the regent as quoted by Antara. Meanwhile, the Head of the Bangka District Health Office, Dr. Then Suyanti said that the 2022 BIAN will start from Wednesday 18 May to Saturday 18 June 2022. During the immunization month activities, services are held. additional immunization against rubella measles in nine-year-old children n months to the age of less than 12 years.

In BIAN activities, immunization services are also provided for children aged 12 to 59 months who do not or have not completed the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) immunization, Inactive Polio Vaccine (IPV) immunization, Diphtheria, Pertussis, and Tetanus (DPT) immunizations, hepatitis B immunization (HB) and HIB. "The immunization must be completed for a child to prevent polio, rubella, diphtheria, hypatitis B, pneumonia and meningitis," he explained. Then Suyanti invited all levels of society including the private sector to participate in the success of BIAN by conveying to parents who have children and have not received immunizations. The National Measles-Rubela immunization target is 95 percent for children aged less than 12 to 59 months must receive Measles-Rubela immunization.