Vaccinating All pregnant females in Sri Lanka with Anti Corona vaccines will begin tomorrow(09) from Piliyandala MOH Area and Castle Street Hospital in Borella according to Collage of Gynecologists .
The Collage with the collaboration of Ministry of Health is planning to vaccinate 275,000 Pregnant females who are attending clinics islandwide according to the president of the Collage Dr Pradeep De Silva .
However he did not reveal the type of vaccine going to inject pregnant females in the country who are at higher risk of exposing to Corona virus .The only Anti Corona vaccine currently available in the country with sufficient stocks is Chinese Vaccine 'Sinopharm " ,However there' are no evidence available to show whether the vaccine is suitable for pregnant females according to Health sources .
However as 08 pregnant females have died during last month due to corona Infection the Collage of Gynecologists had forced the health authorities to vaccinate the pregnant females with any vaccine available in the country and the Ministry has given the approval for the proposal recently .
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