YANGON, Sept 20 — Myanmar has received 2.45 million doses of oral cholera vaccines from the World Health Organisation (WHO), reported Xinhua, quoting state-run daily The Myanma Alinn today.
The vaccines, valued at US$4.05 million (RM17 million), arrived at the Yangon International Airport in two batches on Tuesday (September 17) and yesterday.
Officials from Yangon Region’s Department of Public Health received the vaccines at the airport and transported them to the central cold storage facility in Yangon.
The vaccines will be administered to people in the respective age groups in the townships where cholera outbreaks have occurred.
According to the Ministry of Health, between July 5 and September 5 this year, two people have died, and over 600 others have been hospitalised with severe diarrhoea in the Hlaingthaya township of Yangon region.
— Bernama
