India adds rotavirus vaccine to immunization schedule: ‘historic moment’

Every year, some 900,000 children are hospitalized and 100,000 die from rotavirus infection in India. This has prompted the Indian government to add the rotavirus vaccine to the Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) in an effort to reduce diarrheal illness and deaths in the country. Shri J P Nadda, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare ["]