The Adult Immunisation and Travel Medicine Centre at JSS Hospital in Mysuru on Friday, November 10, conducted an awareness rally on the need for safeguarding elderly and high-risk individuals from certain dreaded diseases through immunisation for which the centre was launched early this year.
The rally was flagged off at the JSS Hospital. JSS Mahavidyapeetha executive secretary C.G. Betsurmath, JSS Medical College Principal Basavanagowdappa and others were present.
Adult immunisation focuses on high-risk individuals requiring vaccination which includes healthcare professionals and workers, elderly people above 65 years of age, patients with diabetes, patients on steroids and immunosuppressive drugs, patients undergoing dialysis, chronic respiratory diseases, transplant recipients and healthy adult male and female populations, a note from the hospital said here.