Polio shots for Central Darfur children this week
Medical campaigns against polio and vitamin A deficiency are scheduled to start in Central Darfur on Monday. The campaigns will last three days and target all children living in the localities, and those of the camps for displaced people and Arab nomads. Speaking with Radio Dabanga, Dr Limya Mohamed Abdalla, the Director of Central Darfur’s Department of Immunization, reported that the campaign against polio is targeting children aged between one day to 6 years old. The campaign to reduce the rate of vitamin A deficiency is meant for children aged between 6 months to five years old. Dr Abdalla appealed via Radio Dabanga to all mothers to keep their children inside the houses for the entire period of the campaigns, that end on Wednesday 5 November. She also appealed to all mothers to complete all the routine vaccination doses. File photo: Polio vaccination in Sudan in 2007 (Isam El Haj/AFP) Related: Mass yellow fever vaccination campaign to stem spread in Sudan (4 December 2013)
Medical campaigns against polio and vitamin A deficiency are scheduled to start in Central Darfur on Monday. The campaigns will last three days and target all children living in the localities, and those of the camps for displaced people and Arab nomads.
Speaking with Radio Dabanga, Dr Limya Mohamed Abdalla, the Director of Central Darfur’s Department of Immunization, reported that the campaign against polio is targeting children aged between one day to 6 years old. The campaign to reduce the rate of vitamin A deficiency is meant for children aged between 6 months to five years old.
Dr Abdalla appealed via Radio Dabanga to all mothers to keep their children inside the houses for the entire period of the campaigns, that end on Wednesday 5 November. She also appealed to all mothers to complete all the routine vaccination doses.
Related: Mass yellow fever vaccination campaign to stem spread in Sudan (4 December 2013)
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