(Daily Daegu Gyeongbuk News=Reporter Yang Seung-mi) = The Bonghwa-gun Public Health Center announced that it was implementing the 2023 national vaccination and selective vaccination support project from January 1st.
The 2023 national vaccination and selective vaccination support projects include mandatory vaccination for children and vaccination against hepatitis B, HPV, pneumococcal, and shingles. In particular, since this year, rotavirus vaccine has been added to the list of compulsory vaccinations for children, increasing the number from 17 to 18, HPV vaccination and counseling support has been expanded, and the eligibility criteria for shingles vaccination has been reduced to living within the jurisdiction for at least one year. Changed.
Targets for each support project are children under the age of 12 for mandatory vaccination for children, adolescent females aged 12 to 17 and low-income women aged 18 to 26 for HPV vaccination, and seniors over 65 years of age for pneumococcal and shingles. .
An official from the Bonghwa-gun Public Health Center said, “We are making efforts to block the spread of infectious diseases in the community by improving the complete vaccination rate for mandatory vaccinations and the vaccination rate for high-risk groups this year compared to the previous year.”
On the other hand, national vaccination is implemented nationally to improve the vaccination coverage rate to a level higher than the eradication level of infectious diseases subject to vaccination by the state bearing the cost of vaccination for effective prevention of infectious diseases.
