Vaccination & ImmunisationVaccination & Immunisation

Immunisations, or vaccines, protect people from severe or contagious diseases while also preventing them from spreading to others by building natural immunity. It uses a small sample of the weakened virus bits of lab-made protein to imitate the actual virus and is injected into the body to build immunity. When a person receives an immunisation, a weakened form of (or a fragment of) a disease is injected which activates the host’s immune system, causing it to produce antibodies to that specific infection or initiate other immune-boosting processes.

Preventing disease is far easier and cost-effective than treating it. Furthermore, vaccines have thwarted epidemics of once-common infectious diseases like measles, mumps, and whooping cough over the years. Others, such as polio and smallpox, have been nearly eradicated as a result of immunisations. As such, Grameen Kalyan’s health center offers immunisations for various diseases to look out for the people in the long term.

Once a person has built immunity from the vaccine, they are ready to fight the infection if they are ever exposed to the disease -causing organism again. In most cases, a vaccine will either prevent or lessen the severity of the impact of the disease if the person is vaccinated.

Currently, among various diseases, Kalyan’s primarily provides vaccinations for

• HBsAg
• Typhoid
• Rabies
• Cervical
• EPI (Expanded Program on Immunisation) for Children 

Kalyan’s health workers also work relentlessly to raise awareness regarding Immunisations or vaccines through educating and counselling people during home visits and other mediums.