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Monday, April 2, 1973
ANTI-MEASLES CAMPAIGN 1973
Nine-Week Drive For Immunisation Starts Today
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The Director of Medical and Health, Dr. G.H. Choa today appealed
to parents of susceptible children to have them immunised against measles
during the nine weeks of the 1973 anti-measles campaign, beginning today.
During this period, free measles vaccine will be offered to
children between six months and five years at all maternal and health
centres as well as at 25 new fixed centres which have been set up in
resettlement estates, health offices, government clinics, dispensaries
and hospitals.
A total of 21 mobile teams with 48 inoculators have been set up.
They will make door to door visits among resettlement and housing estate
residents.
In the New Territories, in addition to the fixed centres located
in the town areas, mobile teams will visit villages.
The Medical and Health Department's two floating dispensaries or
clinic launches will carry the vaccine to outlying islands for the immunisation
of children there.
The campaign is aimed at children in the "susceptible age" between six months and five years. All are born with some degree of immunity against
the disease which they receive from their mother, but before the first
year is up, this natural immunity is usually gone.
The campaign
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