Uganda: Massive Polio Immunization Campaign kicks off

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Uganda: Massive Polio Immunization Campaign kicks off

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<http://www.africanews.com/site/list_message/13817#m13817>Saturday 7

June 2008 - 11:25

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A massive immunization exercise of millions of children aged

below 5 against polio has got underway in Uganda. The exercise

targets districts neighboring with Democratic Republic of Congo

following reports of polio outbreak in parts of Democratic Republic

of Congo. It will be conducted from today Saturday 7th to Sunday 8th

June 2008 and again on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th July 2008.

Uganda has been free of the Wild Polio Virus since 1996 and was

certified Polio-free in October 2006. However, now Uganda's ministry

of health says that the country has come under threat of importing

the Wild Polio Virus (WPV) from the neighbpuring Democratic republic

of Congo (DRC).

" It is therefore important that all children below 5 years are

immunized and given extra protection if polio is to be kept out of

Uganda, " Dr. Sam Zaramba, Uganda's Director General of Health Service stresses.

The exercise kicked of today in the districts of Kanungu, Kisoro,

Rukungiri, Kabale, Kasese, Bundibugyo, Ntungamo Bushenyi and Mbarara.

Dr Zaramba says, " these districts have been identified as being at

high risk of wild polio importation. "

" The Ministry of Health appeals to district authorities to take

this as a matter of urgency and support the District Health Officers

to implement preventive and control measures. Community leaders are

also urged to be on the look out for children who develop fever and

weakness of the limbs and report the nearest Health Unit for

investigation and treatment, " pleads Dr Zaramba

Women carrying children, some on their backs thronged some

immunization posts set up in selected villages, parishes and health

units in the targeted districts.

In an interview with Africanews.com reporter in Uganda, Dr.

Kaguna Amoti, the District Director of Health Services in Mbarara

said that close to 53,000 children in his district will be given oral

polio vaccine.

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Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath

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