ASSESSENT OF MISSED OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMMUNIZATION AMONG CHILDREN AGE OF 0-23 MONTHS ATTENDING ON MIHUR AKLIL WOREDA HEALTH CENTERS, GURAGE ZONE,SNNPR,ETHIOPIA, 2022

Abstract

Back Ground:- Immunization is the process of inducing an immune response or making our body resistant to an infectious disease, typically by administering a vaccine A few studies were conducted on child immunization default at national levels in Ethiopia by using EDHS 2016 Despite this enormous effort to scale up the national vaccination coverage, full immunization remained at 43% in 2019, far from planned coverage of 90% at the national level and 80% in every district level with all vaccines by 2020 with huge variation among regions. Objective: The study was conducted to assess missed opportunities for immunization among children aged 0-23 months in Mihur Akilil district Health from April 28- May 8, 2022 Method: - Institution based cross-sectional study was conducted on the children age 0-23 months who visit Mihur Akilil district, of Gurage zone. Data was collected using a structured questionnaire .The data was numbered in sequence after frequency count and cross tabulation, summarized in table and calculated in percentage. Result; The study finding revealed that 77.6% of children were eligible for immunization and 42.6% were missed the opportunity for immunization after adequate health contact. 98.5% of children 0-23months of age had immunization card, but it was brought by 47.7% of the mother /care takers. Most of mothers/ care takers of the children had positive attitude towards immunization and knowledge about the benefit of EPI.though there was adequate health contact of eligible children, the magnitude of missed opportunity was quite high . Conclusion Based on findings, it was concluded that even