The right methodology to collect data is employing of a community-based mechanism, she observed, adding that once the exact situation regarding the disease gets cleared and this is found to be high, the government must initiate a mopping up exercise. Under the strategy, all children belonging to the neighbouring areas of the sites where any case of measles might have been detected be immediately vaccinated against the ailment. Those from the affected areas will get afflicted at one time or the other and there should be adequate provision for administering Vitamin A capsules to them to stave off the risks of their getting partially or even totally blind. Dr Memon with reference to current practice of immunizing local children against measles at the age of nine months or so suggested two dosages. First, on attaining the age of seven months and the second on turning 13 months old.
Measles vaccines are prerequisite for all children around the world, at least once in a lifetime.
During 1998-99 some 1,009 cases were registered in all the major hospitals of the city including Civil, NICH, Abbasi Shaheed and so forth.