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Health and Family Planning Officer at Khurshid Alam Upazila Health Complex. For now, your concerns about keeping EPI activities going, including measles and rubella, are endless.
Khurshid Alam said that EPI activities are one of the health department’s most sensitive programs. And the measles and rubella program comes with a five-year hiatus. Basically, those in the movement right now implement the program in the field. Due to the protesters’ unwillingness to participate in the measles and rubella program, the Director General of the Department of Health, ABM Khurshid Alam, held a zoom meeting with us on Thursday. The meeting date has been changed. It has been made clear that there is no possibility of measles and rubella going back in time. Then the country will suffer. That is why he has spoken of trying to reach an agreement with the protesters, at least on measles and rubella. Otherwise, there is talk of planning local alternatives.
According to the health department, 11 vaccines against polio, tuberculosis, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, hepatitis B, influenza hemophilia, pneumococcal pneumonia, measles and rubella are part of the EPI program. Of these, measles and rubella are part of special activities. This program is funded by foreign countries. And this is the last activity with outside help. So this program has to be carried out with money from the country. All in all, there is a great challenge ahead with the program. In this situation, there is no visible progress in resolving the crisis, which is why the strike generates a double concern every day.
