{"id":15457,"date":"2019-01-13T16:23:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T10:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=15457"},"modified":"2019-01-13T16:23:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T10:53:43","slug":"provide-free-swine-flu-vaccine-to-high-risk-groups-dak-to-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=15457","title":{"rendered":"Provide free swine flu vaccine to high risk groups: DAK to authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar, Jan 13:<\/strong> Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Sunday urged health authorities in Kashmir to provide free swine flu vaccine to high risk groups like elderly, children younger than 5 years of age, pregnant women and persons with medical conditions.<br \/>\n\u201cFree vaccination will increase vaccine uptake that would protect these vulnerable individuals from dying\u201d said DAK President and flu expert Dr Nisar ul Hassan in a communiqu\u00e9.<br \/>\nHe said 120 people have come down with flu so far this season in Kashmir valley with eleven deaths and most of these deaths were unvaccinated.<br \/>\nDAK President said while flu vaccination is recommended for all, it is especially important for high risk groups who are prone to complications, hospitalization and even death.<br \/>\nHe said most of our population is unvaccinated and cost is the barrier. One flu vaccine costs Rs 1400. High cost of vaccine keeps them out of reach for people.<br \/>\nDr Nisar said unprotected individuals not only risk themselves, but they put the health of whole community at risk<br \/>\nHe cautioned swine flu virus has undergone a change and it is likely to infect more people.<br \/>\n\u201cWe can\u2019t predict how it will behave and what will happen in coming days,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nDr Nisar said this year\u2019s vaccine has been updated to protect against the mutated swine flu strain.<br \/>\n\u201cFor this flu season, quadrivalent vaccine containing four flu virus strains (two A subtypes and two B subtypes \u2013 H1N1 and H3N2, and Victoria and Yamagata respectively) is recommended,\u201d he informed.<br \/>\nDr Nisar said vaccination is the best way to protect you and people around you from getting flu.<br \/>\n\u201cIdeally, people should get vaccine by the end of October. However, getting vaccinated later can still be beneficial and vaccination should continue to be offered throughout the flu season even into January or later,\u201d he advised.<br \/>\nSd\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Jan 13: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Sunday urged health authorities in Kashmir to provide free swine flu vaccine to high risk groups like elderly, children younger than 5 years of age, pregnant women and persons with medical conditions. \u201cFree vaccination will increase vaccine uptake that would protect these vulnerable individuals from dying\u201d said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}