Apollo Hospitals, country’s pioneering healthcare group, today announced the launch of a largescale nationwide vaccination drive to create awareness and encourage Indians to take precautionary steps and avoid easily preventable diseases.
Titled “Apollo Protect”, the campaign will focus on encouraging vaccinations for adolescent and adult population
and will be driven across the group’s integrated healthcare network of hospitals and medical centres across the country, Apollo Hospitals Group Chairman Dr Prathap C Reddy said in a statement here.
I would estimate that at least 2,50,000 precious lives can be saved through this structured drive on Vaccination Preventive Diseases (VPD) and help avoid both chronic and acute conditions like cervical cancer, pneumococcal, swine flu and cholera,” Reddy said.
The campaign will witness a wider reach with valued support from neighbourhood volunteers, corporates, various school and college clubs, Rotary and RWAs todrive awareness among general public, he said.
Vaccination in India has primarily been administered to new born babies with parents taking ample precaution for their children with timely inoculation.
However, a large share of adults and adolescent children are neglected leaving many susceptible to even life-threatening, yet easily preventable maladies,” Apollo Hospitals Group MD Preetha Reddy said.
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