Western region holds review meeting on immunisation

Takoradi (Western region) 23 March '99

Some 395,078 and 404,971 children in the Western Region were immunised in the first and second phases of the 1998 National Immunization Day ( NID ). Dr Mohammed Bin Ibrahim, Regional Director of Health services, announced this at a one-day review meeting of the Regional NID Planning Committee in Takoradi Monday. He said the figures represent 109 percent coverage in the first phase and 111 percent in the second phase of the immunisation programme. The region achieved 96 percent and 102 percent coverage in the first and second phases of the NID in 1997, he said. The challenge facing the region is to find ways of getting all children under five years not covered by the 1984 census to be immunised, he said. The population of children in the region was put at 334,719 in 1996, 352,585 in 1997 and 363,840 in 1998, based on the 1984 population census.