(Reporter: Shen Aimin, Correspondent: Yan Yi) On Nov. 23rd, at the Vaccination Clinic of Yichang Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Xu Yu, a college graduate as the village official, signed her name in “Cervical cancer vaccination notice”, and rolled her sleeves to get vaccination. She was the first citizen who accepted the cervical cancer vaccination in Yichang.
The person in charge of Yichang CDCP introduced that the vaccine is an imported bivalent cervical cancer vaccine, and more than 100 citizens have reserved it till now. There are currently two types of appointment: one for the on-site appointment. The citizens make an appointment a month before the vaccination points, who will submit the vaccination applications and notify the citizens to be vaccinated after its arrival; the other for the online-appointment. The citizens can log on Taobao App and research “Cervical Cancer” to consult and appoint vaccination.
It is learned that Yichang CDCP handed in the procurement plan in October to purchase the first batch of vaccination, more than 1000 of which have been issued to Yichang Maternal and Child Health-Care Hospital as well as the Health Service centers in Xiba, Xiling and Wanshouqiao. Citizens in need can be vaccinated nearby. In addition, Yichang CDCP has also purchased 1800 cervical cancer vaccination and distributed successively to the Town Health Center of Zigui, Xingshan, Yiling, Yuan’An, Changyang, Wufeng and etc. By the press time, 16 people of the city had been injected with cervical cancer vaccine on the first day.