Chennai, Aug. 4 -- A new study led by the union Health and Family Welfare Ministry along with other institutions has revealed that introducing the hexavalent (six-in-one) vaccine into India's Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) could improve the efficiency of the country's childhood immunization programme.
The vaccine will reduce the number of injections that infants receive, ease the workload of frontline health workers, lower cold-chain requirements, and save caregivers' time, the study led by Dr. Pawan Kumar and Dr. Kapil Singh from the union Health Ministry, along with Dr. Susmita Chatterjee from The George Institute for Global Health India, Dr. Arindam Ray and Dr. Amrita Kumari from The Gates Foundation, Dr. Homero Hernandez from G...