Polio vaccination campaign starts

Kenya’s Ministry of Health with the World Health Organization has kicked of 1st Round Polio vaccination campaign targeting 1.8 million children under age 5 in the four counties that include Garissa,Nairobi, Kiambu and Kajiado.Garissa governor Nathif Jama urged parents to use the opportunity to avail their children of the vaccination noting that measles is a highly contagious viral disease, which affects mostly children.

He further reiterated that the vaccine was safe calling for massive campaign to re-assure parents of the vaccines safety. The campaign is in response to an outbreak of polio detected in children in Dadaab in late June of this year.It is a collaboration of the Government of Kenya at various levels as well as WHO, UNICEF and the Red Cross.