Parents to face court over polio
Nov 10, 2006
ANTI-immunisation activists have been warned against decampaigning the mass measles/polio campaign and national child days.
By Akim Mugisa
ANTI-immunisation activists have been warned against decampaigning the mass measles/polio campaign and national child days.
The Nebbi district health inspector, Anthony Andrionzi, said it is the right of children to be immunised against killer diseases.
Andrionzi appealed to community leaders to mobilise parents and guardians to take their children for immunisation and cautioned that those sabotaging the programme would be prosecuted.
The Ministry of Health, with support from the United Nations chidren’s agency, Unicef, is conducting a mass measles and polio immunisation campaign that started yesterday and ends today.
Children aged six months to five years are being immunised against measles while infants of below five years are being vaccinated against polio and receiving Vitamin A supplements.
National Child days shall continue with routine immunisation up to the end of November, in a bid to eradicate polio and prevent recurrence of measles.
UNICEF said a significant increase in cases of measles had been recorded in Uganda this year as compared to 2005.
A Unicef community health consultant, Ddumba Kaggwa, said more than 790 cases had been recorded by July.
Ddumba attributes the increase to anti-immunisation campaigners.
ANTI-immunisation activists have been warned against decampaigning the mass measles/polio campaign and national child days.
The Nebbi district health inspector, Anthony Andrionzi, said it is the right of children to be immunised against killer diseases.
Andrionzi appealed to community leaders to mobilise parents and guardians to take their children for immunisation and cautioned that those sabotaging the programme would be prosecuted.
The Ministry of Health, with support from the United Nations chidren’s agency, Unicef, is conducting a mass measles and polio immunisation campaign that started yesterday and ends today.
Children aged six months to five years are being immunised against measles while infants of below five years are being vaccinated against polio and receiving Vitamin A supplements.
National Child days shall continue with routine immunisation up to the end of November, in a bid to eradicate polio and prevent recurrence of measles.
UNICEF said a significant increase in cases of measles had been recorded in Uganda this year as compared to 2005.
A Unicef community health consultant, Ddumba Kaggwa, said more than 790 cases had been recorded by July.
Ddumba attributes the increase to anti-immunisation campaigners.