India’s health minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad announced a new initiate to boost vaccinations in newborns.
The service will be monitored via the collection of mobile phone numbers of all pregnant mothers. Some 26 million mobile numbers have already been collected and these numbers will act as a tracker by the central or state governments to ensure babies are immunised.
Newborn infants in India are susceptible to tuberculosis, polio, diphtheria, tetanus,whooping-cough and measles and it is high on the priority list for babies to be immunised against these diseases.
India ranks as one of the lowest in vaccinating its populations with only 72% of babies inoculated against the three doses of the DPT vaccine, diphtheria, tetanus and whooping-cough in 2010.
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