All children aged between five and 15 years and enrolled at government and private schools across the province will be vaccinated in September. This was announced by The Sindh health department authorities.
The CM hepatitis control programme is in contacts with the Sindh education department for the vaccination of the students. The vaccinators will start visiting schools in Sindh after Ramazan.
Almost 4.8 million students of government school needs the preventive hepatitis B vaccines while two to three million students will be vaccinated at private schools (which are mostly in Karachi)
It was announced that under the CM programme in various districts of Sindh about 735000 schoolchildren were given hepatitis B vaccines till June 2011.