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West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari connected Saturday (May 30, 2026) launched a statewide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination run to support teen girls against cervical cancer, targeting astir 7.65 lakh beneficiaries aged 14 years.
The inaugural follows the nationalist motorboat of the HPV vaccination programme earlier this year, and aims to lend to the elimination of cervical crab arsenic a nationalist wellness threat, officials said.
Under the campaign, girls who person completed 14 years of property but are yet to crook 15 volition person a azygous dose of the quadrivalent Gardasil-4 vaccine escaped of outgo astatine designated authorities wellness facilities, they said.
Vaccination sessions would beryllium conducted astatine 881 designated Government wellness facilities, including aesculapian colleges, territory hospitals, sub-divisional hospitals, State wide hospitals and artifact superior wellness centres, the officials said.
