Nagaland state government in partnership with UNICEF has taken new initiative of Social and Behaviour change communication (SBCC) to increase the demand for immunisation as the ongoing efforts to improve the health of children.
Three-day residential state level participatory workshop on developing district SBCC strategies on routine immunization has been organised from August 31 to September 2 at Hotel Vivor, Kohima.
Addressing the participants from the district, mission director, national health mission, Nagaland Dr Yankho Lotha, requested them to take full advantage of the workshop and identify the core problem in their respective sistrict and seek for solution during the workshop.
He also mentioned that, Nagaland’s immunisation coverage was very low as compared to the other state and called upon the health workers for stronger will power in delivering the health services to the people especially at the hard to reach areas. Dr.Yankho also expressed his gratitude to UNICEF for focusing on Nagaland in their endeavour towards improving the immunisation program in the country.
Regional consultant, SBCC, Dr. Pravin Kumar, while sharing the objective of the workshop stressed that, it aimed to identify the barriers in the people failing to fully immunise their children and find ways to create demand generation for health services among people especially at the grassroot level.
Dr. Pravin is accompanied by Dr Subhash regional consultant RI and Marykali Yepthom consultant SBCC system strengthening RI and Child Health Nagaland and Manipur, who would be facilitating the three-day workshop.