Vaccin contre la poliomyélite Archives
Health workers in Meme Division have promised to use every means possible to vaccinate children including those in the bushes in the upcoming national polio vaccination campaign, despite the challenges awaiting them given the prevailing insecurity situation in the North West and South West Regions.
The promise was made by the District Medical Officer, DMO for Kumba, Dr. Ebongo Zacchaeus Nanje on Tuesday, March 26, in a planning meeting at the conference room of the health district that grouped chief of centres of the various health establishments in the division.
The meeting which was meant to put in place strategies to kick start the campaign gave the chief of centres the opportunities to reveal strategies they have put in place to be accepted in their various health areas.
Given the fact that the socio-political crisis in the North West and South West Regions of the country has caused the displacement of the population to bushes and other towns, there is need for the vaccinators to extend their services to the bushes.
“Parents have been forced to flee their normal aboard to the bushes and other neighbouring towns where they are not used to because of the crisis; our appeal is that they allow us, health care givers, to penetrate the communities and vaccinate these children because if the children are not vaccinated, they will not be healthy and if they are not healthy, it is their own tomorrow which is compromised”, the DMO averred.
He further reiterated the need for the chief of centres to make use of individuals who can conveniently carry out the vaccination exercise in the bushes.
Dr. Ebongo called on everyone to know the importance of having children vaccinated and for village committee stakeholders to collaborate with the vaccinators and allow their children to be vaccinated.
The Chief of Centre of the Bakumba Health Centre disclosed that the bulk of her population of her health area are in the bushes, reasons why they have put in place strategies to assist them penetrate into the bushes and get the children vaccinated.
“Most of the population of Bakumba is in the bushes thereby posing a major challenge to the vaccination exercise. We intend to make announcements so that people will come to the village with their children for vaccination, though we will still go to the bushes since some might be skeptical to come”, she noted.
With many health centres not operating in most areas in the division especially in the suburbs, the task of getting children vaccinated will certainly not be an easy one. Nonetheless, no polio case has been recorded as of now in the South west region.
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