✔️Vaccines protect children from life-threatening diseases, saving millions of lives each year.
✔️For routine vaccines to be effective, children need to complete the required doses according to schedule from the time they are born until they are one year old. They also need to complete additional doses during supplementary or catch-up vaccination campaigns announced by the Department of Health.
🟡🟢AVAILABLE VACCINES🟡🟢
☑️Vaccine: BCG
Protection from: Tuberculosis
When to give: At birth
☑️Vaccine: Hepatitis B
Protection from: Hepatitis B
When to give: At birth
☑️Vaccine: Pentavalent vaccine
Protection from: Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus, Influenza B and Hepatitis B
When to give: 6, 10 and 14 weeks
☑️Vaccine: Oral Polio Vaccine
When to give: 6, 10 and 14 weeks
☑️Vaccine: Inactivated polio vaccine
When to give: 14 weeks
☑️Vaccine: PCV
When to give: 6, 10 and 14 weeks
Protection from: Pneumonia and Meningitis
☑️Vaccine: MMR
When to give: 9 months and 1 year old
Protection from: Measles, Mumps and Rubella
Source: UNICEF ORG, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
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