Intensified Mission Indradhanush

• Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI 5.0), the flagship routine immunization campaign of the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare concluded all 3 rounds recently in all States/UTs except Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Punjab.
• IMI 5.0 was targeted to ensure that routine immunization services reach the missed-out and dropped out children and pregnant women across the country.
• For the first time the campaign was conducted across all the districts in the country and includes children up to 5 years of age (Previous campaigns included children up to 2 years of age).
• IMI 5.0 campaign aimed to enhance immunization coverage for all vaccines provided under the Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) as per the National Immunization Schedule (NIS).
• Special focus was laid on improvement of Measles and Rubella vaccination coverage with the aim of Measles & Rubella elimination by 2023
• IMI 5.0 has been conducted in three rounds.
• As on 30th September 2023, over 34,69,705 children and 6,55,480 pregnant women were administered vaccine doses during the first 2 rounds of IMI 5.0 campaign across the country.
• It leverages the U-WIN digital platform for Routine Immunization in a pilot mode.

VACCINES UNDER UIP

• The Universal Immunization Programme provides life-saving vaccines to all children across the country free of cost to protect them against Tuberculosis, Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus, Polio, Hepatitis B, Pneumonia and Meningitis due to Haemophilus Influenzae type b (Hib), Measles, Rubella, Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and Rotavirus diarrhoea. (Rubella, JE and Rotavirus vaccine in select states and districts).
• Also, Mission Indradhanush was launched in 2014 as a special catch-up campaign under the UIP, to cover the partially and unvaccinated children.
  • A total of 06 crore children and 1.25 crore pregnant women have been cumulatively vaccinated till date.