National Immunisation Coverage Survey for children

The Ministry of Well being (MoH) will start implementation of Nationwide Immunisation Protection Survey for kids within the age group 1.5 and 5 years, in addition to their moms in all of the governorates from February 20, which is able to proceed till March 20.

The survey goals to validate the outcomes of routine reviews and supply info, along with the quantity of people that have been adequately immunised in any respect ranges (on the nationwide, governorate and wilayat ranges).

It additionally goals to information government insurance policies by presenting finest practices, highlighting challenges that require interactive intervention to enhance the efficiency of the nationwide immunisation programme, and figuring out the explanations for the delay in taking vaccinations from the scheduled appointments or the reluctance to take them.

The survey’s goal is to go to 5,289 houses to acquire immunisation knowledge for 16,470 of the goal teams, the class of kids from one 12 months and a half to 5 years of age as a way to confirm the immunisation knowledge in numerous age phases in line with the nationwide immunisation schedule, and the class of moms who’ve youngsters beneath the age of 5 years (to confirm if they’ve vaccinated throughout being pregnant).

The sphere survey groups will go to the randomly chosen homes in varied wilayats of the Sultanate of Oman. The crew will first ask whether or not there are goal teams in the home; if any, verbal consent to start out the survey will likely be obtained.

The immunisation knowledge of the goal teams will likely be obtained immediately from moms or the kid’s caregiver. The survey crew will use an digital or paper questionnaire type ready upfront by the crew to gather the required knowledge. The survey crew will add a duplicate of the immunisation playing cards (pink for kids) or (inexperienced for moms) for documentation.

The presence of the kid is just not required in the course of the survey. In case of an unvaccinated youngster, they are going to be referred to the closest well being centre. No vaccines, medicines, or taking samples will likely be executed in the course of the survey.