2.45 million doses of oral cholera vaccine (OCV) donated by the World Health Organization (WHO) arrived at Yangon International Airport on September 17 and 19 to be used in measures to control and prevent outbreak of severe diarrhoea, according to the Ministry of Health.
The doses of the vaccine that have arrived are worth more than 4.05 million US dollars. The head of Yangon Region Public Health Department and officials received the doses of vaccine and sent them to the Central Vaccine Cold Room (Yangon).
The doses of vaccine will be distributed to schools, training schools, boarding houses, monastic education schools, nunneries, charitable schools, religious schools, orphanages, nursing homes, relief camps, markets, restaurants, factories and workshops, prisons and densely populated areas with a poorly clean surrounding in the townships where the outbreak was spread. Vaccination measures will be taken according to the target groups at those places.
Last June, there was an outbreak of severe diarrhoea in some townships in Yangon Region including Dawbon Township.
