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• India to increase public health spending to 2.5 pc of GDP: PM

  He also said India is one of the first countries to advocate focused attention on adolescence and to implement a full-fledged health promotion and prevention programme for adolescents.

  

• National policy, improved immunisation programme highlights on health front in 2017

  The nod to the draft National Medical Commission Bill, 2017, by the Cabinet, towards the end of the year, despite opposition from some quarters, came as a shot in the arm for the health ministry.

  

• PM Narendra Modi launches 'Intensified Mission Indradhanush'

  The programme will focus on improving immunisation coverage in the districts and cities to ensure 90 per cent coverage for full immunisation by December 2018 instead of 2020.

  

• Pfizer's pneumonia vaccine now part of immunization programme

  The company's 13-valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV 13) to prevent pneumonia has been selected for immunisation program in certain states.

  

• Srinagar: 12 detained for spreading rumours of death due to polio

  A day after rumours spread in the Valley that polio vaccination caused death of children, which resulted in worried parents rushing their kids to hospitals, police today detained over a dozen persons for allegedly scaremongering about the immunisation programme.

  

• Chennai: Pulse polio campaign to vaccinate 70L children

  As part of the polio endgame plan, the state will launch its pulse polio campaign to vaccinate 70 lakh children under the age of five this Sunday. From March, children will be given injectable polio vaccines along with the oral vaccine during routine immunisation, said director of public health Dr K Kolandaisamy.

  

• Universal immunisation programme coverage 65% in 2014: Nadda

  "The full immunisation coverage is approximately 65 per cent in 2014," Nadda said, adding that the government was setting targets for child vaccination in a bid to accelerate immunisation coverage.