Mission Indradhanush is an Indian government health initiative launched in 2014 with the goal of reaching all unvaccinated and partially vaccinated children and pregnant women by 2020. It aims to increase routine immunization coverage in the country from 65% to 90%. Key objectives include ensuring high coverage of vaccines for preventable diseases like diphtheria, tetanus, tuberculosis, polio, hepatitis B, and measles. The program focuses on conducting immunization drives and generating demand through communication. It also aims to strengthen coordination between stakeholders to effectively implement vaccination programs. Multiple phases have been conducted across states targeting millions of beneficiaries through organized vaccination sessions.

1. Developed by :
T/O V.S.PAVANA SUDHA
B.P.S.SARAPAKA

3. INTRODUCTION
▪Every year in India 5 lakh children die due to vaccine
preventable diseases. Partially immunized and unimmunized
children are most susceptible to childhood diseases and are
at a much higher risk of dying as compared to fully
immunized children.
▪It is critical to identify the unvaccinated or partially
vaccinated children and address these issues with focused
micro planning, provision of additional financial resources
and systematic immunization drives to reach these children
with all available life saving vaccines.

5. Aim
➢The mission focuses on
interventions to improve full
immunization coverage in India
65% in 2014 to at least 90%
children in the next five years
(2020).
General objective
➢The objective of Mission
Indradhanush is to ensure high
coverage of children and pregnant
women with all available vaccines
throughout the country, with
emphasis on the identified 201
high focus districts.

6. TAMILNADU
(8 districts)
❖COIMBATORE
❖TIRUCHIRAPALLI
❖KANCHEEPURAM
❖TIRUNELVELI
❖MADURAI
❖VELLORE
❖THIRUVALLUR
❖VIRUDHUNAGER

7. ➢Mission Indradhanush is a health
mission of the government of India. It
was launched by Union Health Minister
J. P. Nadda on 25 December 2014 as a
special drive to vaccinate all
unvaccinated and partially vaccinated
children and pregnant women by 2020
under the universal immunization
programme.
➢The mission indradhanush, depicting
seven colours of the rainbow, targets to
immunize all children against seven
vaccine preventable diseases.

8. SEVEN VACCINE PREVENTABLE DISEASES
Diphtheria Tetanus Tuberculosis
Polio
Hepatitis
Measles

9. ➢Generating high demand for immunization services by addressing
communication challenges.
➢Enhancing political, administrative and financial commitment
through advocacy with key stakeholders.
➢Ensuring that the partially immunized and unimmunized children are
fully immunized as per national immunization schedule.

11. • State task force for immunization, under leadership of Principal Secretary
Health to guide and monitor progress in districts.
• Strengthen coordination with other relevant departments and key
partners for effective programme implementation.
• Principal Secretary Health and Mission Director, NHM to sensitize District
Magistrates concerned through video conference before first week of
February, followed by a video conference to review preparedness for the
forthcoming campaign. Subsequently, quality of each round to be reviewed
through video conference.
• District and urban bodies’ officials to be oriented on operational and
financial guidelines.
• Printing and dissemination of communication materials, including
banners, posters, audio and video spots.
• Timely dissemination of funds, vaccines and communication materials.
• Designate senior state level observers to involved districts to oversee
preparedness and implementation.

12. ▪ District task force for immunization, under leadership of District Magistrate
to guide and monitor progress in blocks/urban bodies.
▪ Strengthen coordination with other relevant departments and key partners
for effective programme implementation.
▪ Block and urban bodies’ officials to be oriented on operational and
financial guidelines.
▪ Preparation of timeline of activities for effective programme
implementation.
Timely dissemination of funds, vaccines and communication materials.
▪ Designate senior district level observers to priority blocks to oversee
preparedness and implementation.
▪ Daily evening feedback meetings during the Immunization Week at the
district for sharing feedback and corrective actions.
▪ District preparedness meeting, chaired by Chief Medical Officer/Civil
Surgeon to orient all block Medical Officer in charges on micro- planning and
reporting mechanisms.

13. ▪Block area task force for immunization, under leadership of
Block Development Officer to guide and monitor progress in
blocks/urban local bodies.
▪ Training of frontline health workers, including ANMs,
ASHAs and Anganwadi workers.
▪ Sensitization of PRI’s.
▪ Estimation of beneficiaries in leftout areas by ASHA’s.

14. ➢First phase of Mission Indradhanush
❖There were total four rounds in the first phase of the mission. The first
round of the first phase was started from 7th April, 2015 and continued
for more than a week.
❖Further, second, third and fourth rounds were held for more than a
week in the month of may, June and July starting from 7th of each month.
❖The first phase of this mission was very successful.
▪The main highlights of the First phase are:
✓Total 9.4 lakh sessions were organized during this 4 rounds of mission Indradhanush.
✓About 2 crore vaccines were given to the children as well as pregnant women.
✓Tetanus toxoid vaccine are given to more than 20 lakh pregnant women.
✓75.5 lakh children were vaccinated and about 20 lakh children were fully vaccinated.
✓More than 57 lakh zinc tablet and 16 lakh ORS packets were freely distributed to all the
children to protect them against diarrhoea.

16. ❖As many as 53,866 children, aged below two, who have
missed their routine immunisation in the five Hyderabad
Karnataka districts of Kalaburagi, Yadgir, Raichur, Koppal, and
Ballari, Bengaluru (Urban) and in the jurisdiction of the Bruhat
Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will be covered under
the third phase of the Centre’s ‘Mission Indradhanush’ that
was launched in the city on Thursday.
❖Health Minister U.T. Khader, who along with Minister of
State for Medical Education Sharanprakash R. Patil, launched
the third phase on the occasion of World Health Day on
Thursday, said the programme was aimed at covering all those
children who had either missed vaccination or were partially
vaccinated against nine vaccine-preventable diseases,
including diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio,
tuberculosis, measles and hepatitis B. Expecting mothers would
also be immunised for tetanus, he said.
❖As part of the World Health Organisation’s ‘Polio Endgame
Strategy’, administration of inactivated poliovirus vaccine,
which has now been introduced as part of the national
immunisation programme, was also launched in Karnataka on
the occasion.
❖The injectable vaccine, which kills polio viruses, will be used
alongside the oral polio vaccine.

18. ➢To conclude we can say that Mission
Indradhanush scheme is a master stroke in
filling the sustainable goals set up by united
nations of eradicating diseases, reduce infant
mortality rate, provide more aid to pregnant
woman and her baby.
Conclusion
➢Partially immunized and unimmunized
children are most susceptible to childhood
diseases and are at a much higher risk of
dying as compared to fully immunized
children. If that were not reason enough,
immunizing children can go well beyond
saving individual lives.
➢ It can help in preventing large-scale
outbreaks of diseases as well as keeping the
disease under control in an area, thus
reducing the stress on an already burdened
health system.
➢Thus, full immunization is critical to reduce
child mortality and progress on socio-
economic indicators.

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