THIMPHU: The health minister, Lyonpo Zanglay Dukpa, left for Hanoi, Vietnam, to receive an award on behalf of the government for maintaining immunisation coverage over 95 percent since 2005. The award will be bestowed on the eve of the 10th anniversary of global alliance for vaccine initiative (GAVI), on November 19. The minister will also attend the 4th GAVI partner’s forum to be held from November 18 to 19 with a theme “Towards 2015: Responding to the Call for Life-saving Vaccines.”
GAVI recently supplied 30,200 pentavalent vaccines to immunise newborns across the country.