Impact of the Subsidized Rotavirus Vaccination Program in the Disaster-affected Area

Great East Japan Earthquake: Proactive sharing of lessons learned

“…Emergency rotavirus vaccine immunization conducted by the Japanese non-profit organization HANDS in collaboration with the Kesen region vaccine fund was successful in preventing an outbreak of gastroenteritis among the refugee children. 7 Non-profit activities offered by the company Carepro, in which staff checked the health status of volunteers, helped to halt the spread of common infectious diseases including ILI and gastroenteritis. 3 Repeated evacuation drills based on the tradition of "tsunami tendenko", in which the need (spread by word of mouth) to evacuate quickly without waiting for others, to avoid a tsunami after big earthquakes, resulted in the saving of approximately 3,000 primary school children.…”

“…We should also, however, share good practices that emerged from the disaster. Emergency rotavirus vaccine immunization conducted by the Japanese non‐profit organization HANDS in collaboration with the Kesen region vaccine fund was successful in preventing an outbreak of gastroenteritis among the refugee children . Non‐profit activities offered by the company Carepro, in which staff checked the health status of volunteers, helped to halt the spread of common infectious diseases including ILI and gastroenteritis .…”