Statesman News Service
MALDA, Nov. 28: The district health department is facing acute problem in continuing the DPT (Diphtheria Pestusis Tetanus) vaccination programme due to acute crisis of vaccination.
The chief medical officer of health (CMOH) of Malda, Dr Srikanta Roy, said that the available DPT vaccination is nearly 30 to 40 per cent less than what is required in the district.
Women gone to the health centres with their babies said that the health workers could not administer vaccine within the due date because of the present crisis.
The CMOH, Dr Roy, said: “Not only Malda, almost all districts are facing such crisis due to inadequate supply of DPT vaccine from the Centre to state in last six months."
“I have heard from my seniors that the Central authorities had cancelled contract of some suppliers for DPT and other vaccines after detection of poor quality of vaccines supplied by them. The Central authorities, however, could not make any alternate arrangement to supply required vaccines to the states,” said Dr Roy.
The district used to receive excess vaccines earlier and sometimes Malda health officials had to destroy such vaccines after they exceeded its expiry dates.
In last few months, the Malda district health department had to use old stock of vaccines to run the immunisation programme but at present it is facing acute crisis.
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