Students avail adolescent vaccination program

STA. ANA - More than 800 high school students from Sta. Ana National High School yesterday had benefited in  the adolescent vaccination program by the Department of Health (DOH) .

Rolando Zapata, school principal said that students availed the program to free themselves from common vaccine-preventable diseases

The school-based  adolescent Immunization  is a nationwide program of the DOH that adopts the theme, “Malusog na Kabataan, Kabalikat at Pag-asa para sa Kaunlaran: Magpapabakuna”

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It  is aimed at eliminating the emergence of vaccine-preventable diseases.

DOH representatives with the help of the school officials conducted  MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) and Td (Tetanus Diphtheria) vaccination to grade 7 (first year).

These diseases were previously identified by the DOH-National Epidemiology Center as commonly observed to  adolescents.

According to the students, they sought first the approval of their respective parents before they decided to avail the program.

"Swerte po kami dahil isa ang school namin sa napili sa programang ito ng pamahalaan. Nakatipid na kami, sigurado pa ang aming kalusugan," one of the students here stated.