Assessment of the immunization status of children between 1-3 years of age, coming to opd of military hospital, Rawalpindi

ABSTRACT

To determine the immunization status of children between 1-3 years of age, reported at children OPD; Military Hospital, Rawalpindi. Descriptive cross sectional study. Paediatric outpatients department of Military Hospital, Rawalpindi from January to June 2010. Vaccination data of 2200 children of 1-3 years of age coming to outpatients department, regarding seven EPI target diseases was collected using a standard proforma. Statistical analysis was done at the end of study using SPSS version 14.0. Out of 2200 children, 1256 [57.1%] were completely immunized, 740 [33.6%] were partially immunized and 204 [9.3%] were unimmunized. This study concludes that immunization indicators have not met the expected benchmarks and achievements are inadequate as compared to the regional and global immunization level