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- STMA Health Director, Doctor Pius Mensah, reiterates calls to observe due hygiene if polio illness tin beryllium successfully eradicated from Ghana
- STMA Metro Health Directorate briefs Parents, guardians, assembly members, spiritual bodies, wellness workers, assemblage volunteers, NGOs and different community-based groups connected the IPV2 Vaccination exercise
- The Public Health Unit of the STMA to instrumentality vantage of the month-long IPV2 vaccination to scope each kid wrong the metro
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The Health Director of the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly, Doctor Pius Mensah, has reiterated the request to observe due hygiene if polio illness has to beryllium eradicated.
Keeping the situation cleanable astatine each times, helium said, is 1 of the surest means to assistance extremity the dispersed of the polio virus.
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Mensah speaking with Yen.com connected the sidelines of a programme to little immoderate selected journalists and different stakeholders connected the instauration of the “Second Dose Inactivated Polio Vaccine into Routine Immunization” successful Sekondi, a suburb of occidental portion said, the 2nd dose vaccine is not a caller vaccine and being introduced to service arsenic an immune boaster for the children nether 5 years old.
He noted that, “the cardinal happening astir the IPV2 is that it tin combat against each three types of polio, frankincense Polio 1, 2 and 3”.
The people acceptable by the Directorate is to vaccinate 10,390 children nether 5 years wrong April.
The engagement forms portion of efforts by the Directorate to guarantee nationalist consciousness and stakeholder enactment successful strengthening regular immunisation services successful enactment with nationalist and planetary strategies to eradicate poliomyelitis.
Mensah encouraged parents and guardians to marque their wards disposable to beryllium vaccinated with the IPV2 erstwhile tract workers and volunteers are deployed for the month-long immunisation exercise.
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Present were parents, guardians, assembly members, spiritual bodies, wellness workers, assemblage volunteers, NGOs and different community-based groups.
The STMA Metro Health Directorate Public Health Nurse, Marian Borden, said the Public Health Unit astatine the Directorate has deployed nurses to sojourn communities and different vantage locations to commence the vaccination. She assured parents that the IPV2 is harmless and effectual against Polio and therefore, determination was nary request to
entertain immoderate fearfulness that their children mightiness beryllium successful information aft receiving the jab.
She said the Public Health Unit of the Directorate volition instrumentality vantage of the month-long IPV2 vaccination, which is portion of the “African Vaccination Week” and “Child Health Promotion Week”, to make consciousness and accelerate their efforts successful their activities to scope each kid wrong the metro.
The benefits of the IPV second-dose vaccine see the proviso of further extortion against polio, and it helps to acceptable the signifier for ending OPV usage wholly aft WPV eradication has been achieved.
When usage of OPV is yet stopped, IPV volition proceed to supply afloat extortion and introducing IPV to the assemblage besides helps to punctual caretakers astir the value of vaccinations wide and pass them astir missed and upcoming vaccinations.
According to 2023 data, the Western Region by the extremity of 2023 had vaccinated 84,884, 101 per cent of children nether 5 with the IPV.
Vaccine Shortage: Medicines Used To Immunise Babies Against Polio, Measles And Other Diseases Become Scarce
YEN.com.gh reported that Health facilities crossed Ghana person been deed by a shortage of immoderate communal but captious vaccines utilized for routine immunisation of babies from commencement to astir 18 months.
According to an investigative study by the state-owned Daily Graphic newspaper, the shortage of vaccines successful astir each 16 regions crossed the state exposes infants to diseases specified arsenic Meningitis, polio, measles, and whooping cough, among others.
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Source: YEN.com.gh
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