New national immunisation schedule for children

BernamaPublished: Nov 17, 2020 8:32 AM

The Health Ministry has announced changes to the National Immunisation Schedule for Children which is being implemented in stages beginning early this month.

Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the combination of five vaccine series - diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis-polio-Haemophilus influenza type b (pentavalent DTaP-IPP/Hib) - would be replaced with a six-series vaccination programme...

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