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A four-day polio vaccination campaign commenced in South Sudan’s Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal State on Tuesday targeting more than 29,000 children aged between 0-5 years across the state, officials said.
An official at the Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal State’s health ministry, John Agany Deng said around 800 vaccinators were deployed after the ministry received vaccines from Juba.
“The state has been preparing to launch the second round, especially for polio vaccination operations. We managed to employ 825 teams of vaccinators across the five counties of Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal State. We also received our vaccines, a total number of 18,259, to cover the targeted areas for immunization,’’ Agany said.
(MENAFN - Newsroom Panama) Panama will receive the second batch of 62,859 Pfizer vaccines early Wednesday morning. The new doses will continue phase 1-A and start phase 1-B.
Once the drug arrives in the country, it will be transferred to the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) , from there the distribution will begin immediately with the objective that on Wednesday morning the vaccines will be available at vaccination sites .
Eduardo Ortega, director of the National Secretariat for Science, Technology, and Innovation (Senacyt) , explained that phase 1 includes first-line health personnel, people who are in nursing homes, complete the second dose to those who have already been vaccinated, and health personnel who are not first line.
(MENAFN - Tribal News Network) PESHAWAR: Naazir Afridi was one of the many parents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa who have been refusing to vaccinate their children against the poliovirus due to the doubts in their minds about the vaccine.
He had not been allowing the polio workers to enter his home during the regular immunization drives. He understood that the poliovirus did not exist and the immunization drive was nothing but a drama, scripted by some Western NGOs for their vested interests. He could not believe that the poliovirus could cripple a child for the whole life.
His perception about the virus, however, changed with the outbreak of the coronavirus disease when he realized that a virus could be so dangerous that it might claim human lives.
The world’s first and only national-scale drone delivery service, Zipline has announced the delivery of over 1 million program vaccine doses to rural and hard-to-reach areas of Ghana.
The vaccines were delivered within Zipline’s catchment areas at Omenako, Mpanya, Vobsi, and Sefwi Wiaso.
According to the company, in addition to their original mandate of delivering emergency medical components, they have partnered with the Expanded Program on Immunization to be the sole distributor of vaccines to a number of facilities within their operational areas that have challenges with cold storage and/or are hard-to-reach.
So far, a total of 1,174,227 vaccine doses have been delivered.