Mozambique will carry out its ninth polio vaccination campaign over the next four days, which is expected to cover more than 21 million children and adolescents, a Ministry of Health (Misau) source told Lusa on Tuesday.
According to data provided by Misau’s Expanded Vaccination Program Director Leonildo Nhampossa, for this ninth round, 25,665,180 doses of oral vaccine are available for 21,749,477 children and adolescents under 15 years of age who will be vaccinated from September 13 to 16 across the country.
This is the second polio vaccination campaign carried out in 2023 in Mozambique (the previous one was in June), following seven others carried out in 2022, when 33 cases of polio were reported in the country, including Zambezia provinces. and Tete, in the center of the country, is the most critical.
These immunization operations are usually carried out in homes, health care facilities, schools, kindergartens, places of worship, markets and other places where people gather.
In February, the Ministry of Health announced that four rounds of immunization would be carried out this year against polio, a disease that has not been reported in the country since 1992 and has resurfaced following an outbreak in neighboring Malawi.
Polio is an incurable infectious disease that mainly affects children under 5 years of age and can only be prevented by a vaccine.
In some cases, this can cause paralysis of the limbs.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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