• Vaccination is the most effective method of preventing highly infectious diseases. National Vaccination Day is celebrated on 16^th March every year.
• National Vaccination Day was first observed on 16th March 1995 when first dose of Oral Polio Vaccine was given.
• The Government of Indiacelebrates National Vaccination Day every year to convey the importance of vaccination to the people of the country.
• Every year on this day millions of children of India are immunized with the polio vaccine.
• National Vaccination Day is done in order to enhance the awareness of the eradication of polio.
• Extensive immunity due to vaccination is mostly responsible for the worldwide eradication of smallpox, widespread immunity and the restraint of diseases such as polio, measles, and tetanus from a large amount of the world.
• Whenever a newborn is born, many types of vaccines are applied to it. So that he cannot get any fatal disease.
• Vaccination is one of the safest and most effective methods of preventing childhood diseases.
• All types of diseases have different types of vaccination.
• Through immunization, the children’s body gets the strength to fight infectious diseases.
• Children who are vaccinated from time to time do not have any type of infectious disease.
• The World Health Organization (WHO) informs about licensed vaccines which are currently available to prevent and control infections.
• There are many diseases, which, if not vaccinated at the right time, can take the form of a fatal disease.

BCG – Bacille Calmette Guerin
OPV – Oral Polio Vaccine
DPT – Diphtheria Pertussis Tetanus
Hep – Hepatitis
IPV – Inactivated Polio Vaccine
MMR– Mumps, Measles and Rubella
JE – Japanese encephalitis
TT– Tetanus Toxoid