Kathmandu. KATHMANDU: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has started a campaign to vaccinate school girl students against the Human Papillomavirus (HPV), which causes cervical cancer.
On Tuesday, Padyamkanya Vidyashram Secondary School. The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) Health Department has inaugurated a routine HPV vaccination campaign targeting school girls.
Addressing the inauguration of the school-focused routine HPV vaccination program, Acting Mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Sunita Dangol, said that the vaccination was being administered free of cost in schools.
“We started last year. Earlier, you used to take this vaccine by paying for it, but now there is a program to give free vaccination in schools,” she said, “We want more and more sisters to benefit from this program.” ’
Dangol also informed that the vaccination campaign is going on across the country in collaboration with the local government. “Today, the HPV virus vaccine is being administered in various places across the country, especially in collaboration with the local government. Today, we are doing a vaccine program here as well,” she said.
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