Polio Vaccination Campaign Concluded: Official The door-to-door Polio vaccination campaign approach designed to reach every child in Eastern Equatoria State has concluded well, an official has said. 24 November 2013
*By Peter Lokale Nakimangole* *TORIT, 24 November 2013 [Gurtong] –* The State Health Minister Dr. Margaret Itto Leonardo confirmed that the campaign is currently progressing well without any interruption as the ministry has already dispatched several vaccinators and supervisors to various counties of the state. Ahead of the continuing countrywide exercise, the National Ministry of Health announced that Polio Vaccination will take place in November therefore all children less than five years are welcomed to benefit from the program. As part of efforts to encouraging mothers to willingly bring their under five children to receive vaccines, the Ministry is appealing to parents not to hide their children from the ongoing program. The Ministry’s officials expressed that the just launched program has truly picked and continued well saying it appears the program will maintain successful race after. Conducted four times a year countrywide, the program is the third campaign of its kind of the year after the first one was conducted last March; ran from March 19th-22nd, and April 23rd-26th 2013. Conducted using a door-to-door campaign by the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) Department in the EES Heath Ministry, The campaign is supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), officials have disclosed. She clarified that Polio has paralyzed many generations in the then Southern Sudan region before but with the help of International Non-Governmental Organizations like WHO and UNICEF intervened. The Minister further clarified that if a child earlier succumbed to polio until he or she becomes lame or paralyzed, she or he will no longer be surviving even when we try to give the vaccine, it won’t do anything to rescue. “We want parents to avoid hiding their children. They should willingly bring in them for the continuing vaccinations. I want to raise this as an alarm to our fellow mothers that polio vaccine is life because it saves millions of lives. I want to tell them the vaccines are safe,” Dr. Itto appealed. Posted in: Home<http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/CategoryView/mid/519/categoryId/1/Home.aspx> -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14ooR2TfGA2KYxcKRiB9hskWvNVNJnqTZTZusSS-DLaq-mQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
