Polio Immunisation Exercise Ends

The First Phase of this year's National Immunization programme ended throughout the country on Sunday 8, November. Nineteen vaccination posts were mounted to cover about three-point-seven million children. Though it rained in the Ga District, it did not hamper the target of some areas including Shikpontele due to the early start of the programme. According to a Public Health Officer, Miss Patricia Cudjoe, the encouraging results were due to the use of community registers of the target groups as well as the use of mobile vans. At Taifa, also int he Ga District, the story was different as many people claimed they did not know anything about the programme, so some of the volunteers had to go out to inform and bring the children to the centres to be immunised. On the whole, Health Officials have described the exercise as successful. The Director of the Primary Health Care Unit of the Ministry of Health, Dr.. Sam Bugri, said every effort will be made to avoid the low level of response in some parts of the country. The next Immunization Day is the 13th of next month.

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