New national immunisation schedule for children

The Health Ministry has announced changes to the National Immunisation Schedule for Children which is being implemented in stages beginning early this month.

Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the combination of five vaccine series - diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis-polio-Haemophilus influenza type b (pentavalent DTaP-IPP/Hib) - would be replaced with a six-series vaccination programme...