The Union health ministry has drawn an ambitious plan to administer the Rotavirus vaccine to every child across the 36 states and Union territories in the country by September under the 100-day agenda of the government.
Speaking on the expansion of the Rotavirus vaccine programme to the entire country, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday said, that under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership, the government was committed to putting an end to morbidity and mortality in children due to diarrhoea by 2022. Strengthening routine immunisation was an essential investment in children and it would ensure a healthy future for the country, he stressed.