Enhanced Operations The Indradhanush 3.0 Plan for 2024
Why in the News
The Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) 3.0 programme was recently launched to provide vaccination coverage to pregnant women and children who were unable to receive their regular shots during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Important Points
Concerning the 3.0 Initiative for Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI):
Goal:
To expedite the full immunisation and comprehensive immunisation coverage of children and pregnant women by providing all vaccinations available to the unreached population under the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP).
Reportage:
This year, there will be two rounds, and they will take place in 250 pre-selected districts and metropolitan regions spread over 29 States and UTs.
313 low risk, 152 medium risk, and 250 high risk districts are represented in the classification of the districts.
Beneficiaries who may have missed their vaccination shots during the epidemic would be given preference, especially those who reside in distant and migratory locations.
Importance: It will facilitate India’s progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Launch of the Universal Immunisation Programme
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare launched the Expanded Programme of Immunisation (EPI) in 1978, marking the beginning of the Immunisation Programme in India.
The programme was renamed the “Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP)” in 1985.
The program’s goals include: boosting immunisation rates quickly; raising service quality; establishing a dependable cold chain system at the health facility level; introducing a district-level performance monitoring system; and achieving self-sufficiency in vaccine manufacture.
Evaluation:
UIP protects against 12 vaccine-preventable diseases, preventing morbidity and mortality in both pregnant women and children. However, it was previously observed that the rise in vaccination coverage had decreased, rising at a rate of 1% year between 2009 and 2013.
Mission Indradhanush was designed and put into action in 2015 with the goal of quickly reaching 90% complete immunisation coverage.
Goal of the Indradhanush Mission:
To fully vaccinate over 89 lakh children who are under UIP and either unvaccinated or partially vaccinated.
focuses immunisation efforts on pregnant women and children under the age of two.
Conditions Covered:
Immunisation against 12 vaccine-preventable diseases (VPD) is offered. These include vaccination against rotavirus, pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV), whooping cough, tetanus, polio, tuberculosis, hepatitis B, meningitis, pneumonia, Haemophilus influenzae type B infections, Japanese encephalitis (JE), and measles-rubella (MR).
On the other hand, vaccination against Haemophilus influenzae type B and Japanese encephalitis is being offered in a few national areas.
Launch of Indradhanush 1.0: An Intense Mission
October 2017 saw its launch.
Coverage: One of Mission Indradhanush’s limitations was that under IMI, metropolitan regions received more attention.
In order to guarantee full immunisation to more than 90% by December 2018 rather than 2020, it concentrated on increasing vaccine coverage in a few regions and cities.
Enhanced Operations Launch of Indradhanush 2.0:
A national vaccination campaign was held to commemorate the 25 years of the Pulse polio programme (2019–20).
Reportage:
Its goals were to achieve complete vaccination coverage in 272 districts throughout 27 States.
By 2024, it sought to attain a minimum of 90% vaccination coverage throughout India.
