LAHORE: The Punjab AIDS Control Programme is providing free hepatitis ‘B’ and ‘C’ screening, and hepatitis ‘B’ vaccination to staff and students of
Danish schools, sa
id Primary and Secon
dary Healthcare Department Additional Secretary (Admin) Dr Adnan Zafar on Friday.
He said that the campaign will be completed by the end of this month.
“On a request from the
Danish School Authority, we have started a comprehensive screening, testing and vaccination campaign for staff and student of
Danish schools from the second week of February,” he said.
He added more than 8,000 children and around 2,300 staff members are being offered the free services. “The service is
also being provided t
o high-risk groups like truck and bus drivers, people of transgender community as well as vulnerable and marginalised groups.”