Updated On: 06 April, 2018 05:33 PM IST | Bhopal | PTI
Madhya Pradesh government, with technical support from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), will start a vaccination drive from Saturday to immunise infants against pneumonia and meningitis


The Madhya Pradesh government, with technical support from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), will start a vaccination drive from Saturday to immunise infants against pneumonia and meningitis. The Union government's Sample Registration Survey (SRS), the findings of which were released last year, had put the infant mortality rate (IMR) in Madhya Pradesh at 52 deaths per thousand live births and called it alarming.