The second round of the polio immunization campaign will commence on Thursday 30th October .The three day campaign will end on Saturday 1st November 2014.
It comes on the heels of what the Ghana Health service describes as a successful immunization campaign in September 2014 which saw over one hundred per cent coverage. Almost six million children under the age of five were immunized last month out of about five million, seven hundred children who were targeted in the exercise.
The GHS says trained vaccination teams will move from house to house administering 2 drops of polio vaccine and vitamin A capsules.
Coordinator of the Expanded National Immunization programme at the Ghana Health Service Dr.George Bonsu tells LIVE NEWS all is set for the smooth take off of the campaign.
Dr George Bonsu says the vaccination campaign is in response to the current spread of wild polio cases in the West African sub region. He says the incidence of polio in Nigeria puts Ghanaian children at risk hence the need to vaccinate them against the disease.
