Localities to mobilise their own vaccine supplies

Therefore, the Ministry of Health suggested that the Departments of Health report the estimated demand to the local People’s Committees to organise the procurement.

The expanded immunisation programme is a free, national immunisation programme that aims to protect children from some common and highly fatal infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio, and more.

Before this, the vaccines were purchased using the central budget allocated by the Ministry of Finance in coordination with the Ministry of Health to provide free vaccination for children.