`Increase EPI scope to control diseases´
(WorldNews Pakistan)

LAHORE The scope and reach of Expanded Programme of Immunisation (EPI) must be increased as 27 percent of deaths of below 5 years age children in Pakistan are due to vaccine-preventable diseases, revealed health experts in a press briefing to mark World Immunisation Week. Former President Pakistan Paediatric Association Prof Dr Tahir Masood said that immunisation is a proven tool for controlling and eliminating life-threatening infectious diseases and it is one...