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HPV vaccination has been started in the district from Tuesday to control cervical cancer of girls. Baburam Acharya, Head of the District Coordinating Committee, started the vaccination by handing over the vaccination kit to the health workers in a program held at the Buddha Padma Mavi in the headquarters Taulihwa.
The first phase has been started in the schools of Kapilvastu, Krishnanagar and Shivraj Municipalities and Vijayanagar and Yashodhara Village Municipalities from January 22nd to 28th. In the second phase, the vaccination program will be conducted from January 29 to February 6 in Wanganga, Buddhabhumi and Maharajgunj Municipalities and Mayadevi and Suddhodhan Rural Municipality.
District Health Office Senior Public Health Officer Narayan Prasad Chowdhury said that the target is to vaccinate 44,471 teenage girls in the district. Among them, there are 36 thousand 756 girls studying in schools from classes 6 to 10 and 7 thousand 714 girls who are out of school. 572 vaccination centers have been established to make the
campaign successful. Diwakar Maharjan, vaccination officer of the health office, said that arrangements have been made to have one vaccinator and two volunteers in each center.
