Immunization Department Lacks Data Recording Cards
The Jonglei State Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) department is facing challenges in data recording in issuing the Tetanus Toxiod Immunization (TT) cards to children under one year. 28 March 2013 The Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) has eleven immunization sites in Jonglei state counties including state headquarters and the mobile immunization centres have no access to the village vaccination centres.[Gurtong | File] By Jacob Achiek Jok BOR, 27 March 2013 [Gurtong] - The EPI officer, Trazza Adam Deng has said that women are using the Tetanus Toxiod as their immunization cards and there is a shortage of child health cards all over South Sudan. "The children given TT cards will be provided with Child Health cards if the ministry of health provides us with the Child Health Cards, we are giving them Tetanus Toxiod cards for the time being," Trazza Adam said. Adam said they have well qualified public health officers in Expanded Program on Immunization in Jonglei state. Adam Deng said that they are being supported by United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF), World Health Organization and some Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) providing vaccines through the government of South Sudan. She urges all the ladies to accept women tetanus toxiod immunization because some of the women are refusing injection. "It is not good to refuse the public immunization it may protect yourself from tetanus," he said. The EPI department is still vaccinating the children under the trees in Bor due to lack of space the Bor Civil Hospital. She said that those vaccines are for prevention and not for cure and even if the baby is suffering from different diseases he/she can still get the vaccines. The EPI has eleven immunization sites in Jonglei state counties including state headquarters and the mobile immunization centres have no access to the village vaccination centres. Posted in: Home, Governance, Health -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
