The Kathmandu Metropolitan City has stated that it is targeting 46 thousand 985 teenage girls to be vaccinated against cervical cancer (HPV). The girls in the metropolis will be given the vaccine against this cancer.
In the meeting of the vaccination coordination committee of the metropolis held on Monday, while talking about women's health and vaccination, Deputy Chief of the metropolis Sunita Dangol expected the citizens to help in the participatory chronic disease prevention program conducted by the metropolis.
The metropolis has informed that the vaccine will be given to girls from 6th to 10th grade attending community and institutional schools and girls from 10th to 14th age who do not attend school.
For this, the Health Department of the Metropolitan Municipality has calculated the number of female students of 499 schools by community and institutional. There are 79 community and 420 institutional schools in the department. 42 thousand 57 female students are studying in these schools. The metropolis has informed that there are 4 thousand 928 teenage girls out of school.
Head of Health Department Deepak Kumar KC said that the metropolis will start the campaign in two phases on January 22 and January 25.
'In the first phase, ward no. Vaccination will start in wards 1, 2, 5, 8, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28 and 30, he said, "Ward no. Vaccination program will be conducted on 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 26, 29, 31 and 32 from January 25.'
Satish Bisht, senior public health administrator of the Public Health Office, Kathmandu, said that vaccination services have been conducted in accordance with the goal of reducing the number of cancers to less than 4 per 100,000 women.
