Ministry provides free tetanus-diptheria shots

Dr Anupong Sujariyakul, director of the Disease Control and Prevention Office 4 in Ratchaburi, said yesterday the department had provided vaccine shots to people in 20 provinces in the Northeast since October. Since January it had been doing the same in the 57 other provinces, with the campaign ending on April 30. He urged people to get vaccines at a hospital or a tambon health clinics.

Anupong said about 4.8 million had been vaccinated and didn’t develop any serious side-effects. The ministry aims to provide vaccine cover to at least 80 per cent of population in that age group.