Kolkata, May 30 -- Terming cervical cancer "the second most dangerous disease affecting women," West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday launched a statewide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme that will be administered free of cost to adolescent girls across the state, marking a significant step in the government's preventive healthcare push against the disease.
The programme was formally inaugurated at the Bidhannagar Sub-Divisional Hospital in Salt Lake, where Adhikari also remotely inaugurated a new 100-bed ward at the SSKM Hospital in Kolkata.
"Cervical cancer is the second most dangerous disease affecting women. This initiative will benefit 14-year-old girls across Bengal," he said at the launch programme...