Indradhanush programme to be renamed
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New Delhi: Health Ministry's ambitious programme 'Mission Indradhanush', which provides immunisation against seven life threatening diseases, is all set to be re-christened with the addition of four new vaccines into its basket.
'Mission Indradhanush' depicting seven colours of the rainbow provides vaccination to seven vaccine preventable diseases which include diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, tuberculosis, measles and Hepatitis B.
Health Minister J P Nadda said that since four new vaccination has been added to the immunisation programme, its name has to be changed.
"Mission Indradhanush has brought change in the lives of people. We have to keep some other name in place of Indradhanush as the vaccinations has gone up from seven to eleven," Nadda said.
"We have added four new vaccinations - rotavirus, measles rubella, inactivated polio vaccine biavalent and Japanese Encephalitis
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