Over 2,300 Adolescent Girls in Baglung Receive HPV Vaccine Against Cervical Cancer

Baglung. Two thousand thirty-two adolescent girls in this district have received the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine against cervical cancer. The vaccine, which began being administered last year, was given this year to girls studying in grades 6 through 10 and those outside of school.

This year, the target is to administer the HPV vaccine to 2,313 adolescent girls across the district, informed Devprakash Ghimire, Information Officer at the Provincial Public Health Office. According to him, 556 girls in Baglung Municipality, 268 in Galekot, 158 in Jaimini, and 419 in Dhorpatan Municipality received the vaccine.

Furthermore, Ghimire stated that 135 girls in Kathekhola Rural Municipality, 101 in Tamankhola, 55 in Tarakhola, 235 in Nisikhola, 309 in Badigad, and 73 in Bareng Rural Municipality received the HPV vaccine.

He mentioned that 2,271 school-going girls and 14 out-of-school girls, along with 17 who were missed, received the vaccine this time. Last year, 11,177 adolescent girls received the HPV vaccine. Health workers have been deployed to reach schools and door-to-door by the end of Falgun to ensure that no adolescent girls in the specified age group are missed for vaccination, he added.