84% of Adolescent Girls in Dhanusha District Vaccinated Against Cervical Cancer

Janakpurdham. 84 percent of adolescent girls in Dhanusha district have been vaccinated against cervical cancer. At an orientation program regarding the HPV vaccine organized by the District Public Health Office in Janakpurdham today, Office Chief Umesh Yadav stated that the free vaccine has been administered to 16,900 adolescent girls in Dhanusha, including Janakpur.

Mentioning that the vaccine was administered to adolescent girls aged 10 to 14 years, he added that since the government's target is to provide the vaccine to 100 percent of adolescent girls, preparations are underway to administer the vaccine to Class 6 girls starting Sunday.

Chief Yadav also stated that school teachers were oriented to provide information about the vaccine. The details presented by him mentioned that 2,0169 women in Nepal develop cervical cancer annually. If the infection persists for 20 years through repeated instances, the probability of developing cancer is extremely high.

At the program, Rajnandan Mandal, Chief of the District Coordination Committee Dhanusha, emphasized the need for everyone's cooperation in the vaccination drive against cancer and expressed the view that awareness must be raised to vaccinate adolescent girls in madrasas as well.

On the same occasion, Dhanusha's Chief District Officer Prem Prasad Luitel suggested that this vaccination campaign is extremely important and that 100 percent coverage must be achieved by including adolescent girls outside of schools.