WIRRAL has seen an 88% take-up rate of the cervical cancer vaccination programme for the borough’s schoolgirls.
Immunisation coordinator, Dr Christine Comer, praised parents, schools and children for the “phenomenal” success of the current HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccination programme involving 2,000 12 and 13 year-old girls.
By week four of the vaccination schedule, school nurses had already recorded an 88% uptake in the first wave of schools scheduled into the programme.
Dr Comer said: “We are delighted with the way this programme is going; it has been a phenomenal success to date and we hope it continues to be so.”
Immunisation involves three injections given over a period of six months. Over the next three years the vaccine will also be offered to other girls aged up to 18.
