Nepal has received 2.5 lakh doses of Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) from WHO on Sunday.
According to the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), a total of 252,363 doses of OCV have arrived in Nepal on Sunday with an aim to inoculate denizens of the cholera-affected area of Kapilvastu District.
Dr. Krishna Prasad Poudel, Spokesperson to the MOHP, said that all doses will be administered to five municipalities of Kapilvastu, where the cholera outbreak was detected on October,4.
Dr. Poudel said that the World Health Organisation’s International Coordinating Group (ICG) Cholera Secretariat, which is devoted to the control of cholera disease, supplied 252,363 doses of OCVs to Nepal.
“We are planning to inoculate affected people of the Cholera induced zones on coming Sunday,” He added.
60,153 doses will be supplied in Krishnanagar, 53,156 in Maharajgunj, 64,778 in Shivaraj Municipality, and 35,903 in Bijaynagar as well as 37,783 in Yashodhara Rural Municipality.
Source : TRN,
