Manila, Aug. 28 -- The Department of Health Western Visayas Center for Health Development (DOH WV CHD) encouraged parents and caregivers to support the 2025 school-based immunization (SBI) targeting 185,657 selected public school learners in the region.

DOH WV CHD regional immunization program medical coordinator Dr. Jose Martin Atienza said they aimed to protect Grades 1 and 7 learners who will be administered with measles-rubella (MR) and tetanus-diphtheria (Td) vaccines, and Grade 4 female learners for human papillomavirus vaccines (HPV) as they resumed with the Bakuna Eskwela program this August until September.

In a press conference on Thursday, Atienza said they target to cover all of the 62,843 Grade 1 and 84,142 Grade 7 learners...