Vaccination in India - Is a New Dawn Coming?

Rahul Verma

Abstract: While India has achieved much in its vaccination program, especially its much feted Oral Polio Vaccine program, it continues to have challenges in increasing the coverage of its population, largely due healthcare infrastructure and awareness. This paper will briefly look at the brief history of vaccination, the success of the OPV campaign, then progress to discuss the performance of the Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) campaign which aims to address the vaccine deficit In India at an accelerated pace. Finally, the paper seeks to compare the highly successful pulse polio campaign with the IMI2.0

Keywords: vaccination, healthcare, Mission Indradhanush, oral polio