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A two-day HPV vaccination camp, jointly organised by Natco Trust, Lions Club of Visakhapatnam Charitable Trust and Chaitanya Sravanthi, an NGO concluded connected Sunday. Nearly 600 girls were administered the vaccine, which protects girls from cervical crab successful the future.
The campy was held for miss children of constabulary unit and Home Guards, successful the property radical of 9 to 14 years. The vaccine is fixed successful 2 doses six months apart.
Police Commissioner Shankhabrata Bagchi, who inaugurated the campy connected Saturday, expressed anticipation that the HPV vaccine would soon beryllium included successful the nationalist immunisation programme. He commended Dr. Shirin Rahaman, president of Chaitanya Sravanthi for the initiative. The Commissioner said that the constabulary section would soon organise a rally connected Beach Road to rise nationalist consciousness astir cervical cancer.
He urged NGO s and societal work organisations to organise wellness camps for diseases similar hepatitis, pnuemonia and typhoid arsenic the constabulary personnel, who enactment circular the timepiece were exposed to the vagaries of the weather.
Dr. Shirin Rahaman said that the HPV vaccine is wholly harmless and determination was nary origin for worry. Though an costly she called for expanding the HPV vaccination programme to agrarian areas to safeguard girls successful villages. She appealed to the Central and State authorities to enactment the mission.
Dr. Sarojini, a retired DM&HO and Lions Cancer Hospital Managing Trustee Umamaheswara Rao were among those who spoke.
