TETANUS VACCINE DRIVE AT BBH

MUMBAI, JULY 17, 2019: The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai R-Central ward, Borivli West, Mumbai in collaboration with Bosco Boys Home (BBH) organised a health camp to administer tetanus vaccination to the boys of the Home on July 17.

Father Corlis Gonsalves, Rector of the institute, welcomed Doctor Hemant Vakare and his team. Father Gonsalves thanked them for their kind initiative and service offered to the institute. The camp was organised as a preventive measure to help boys and technical students build up their immune system, so as to remain healthy during the monsoons.

Deepak Thikkar addressed the gathering about the various monsoon-related diseases, like dengue, malaria and tuberculosis. An interactive session was then held, in which questions regarding the causes of these diseases and their preventive measures were discussed.

The input session ended with the vaccination of the 180 participants with the Tetanus vaccine, which included the 60 shelter boys, the 120 technical students.

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