Typhoid vaccine for children from Aug 1

The government will begin providing free typhoid vaccination to children under Bangladesh’s routine immunisation programme from Aug 1.
Under the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), children aged between 15 and 24 months will receive a single dose of the typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV).

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) issued detailed implementation guidelines for the programme through the EPI on Monday. According to the directive, the vaccine will be administered free of charge at all permanent and temporary EPI centres. A single dose will be given in the outer middle part of the muscle of the child’s left thigh.

The guideline says the typhoid vaccine can be administered during the same session as the second dose of the measles-rubella (MR-2) vaccine. -bdnews24