Poliomyelitis: Immunization Campaign Launched

Parents in the Littoral region have been called upon to collaborate and bring out their children for the polio vaccination campaign. This was during the launching of the local immunization campaign days in the Littoral region on Thursday April 23. The campaign targets children aged 0 to 59 months in the Adamawa, Centre, Littoral, Far North, North, and East regions. The Littoral Region has set an ambitious target to vaccinate 764,220 children. As such, vaccination teams will move from door-to-door, schools, churches, mosque, markets and any human gathering. There are social mobilizers across all 24 health districts and 191 health areas in the region. The Governor of the Littoral region, Samuel Dieudonné Ivaha Diboua, indicated that the campaign is a direct response to variant polio virus cases detected both within Cameroon and in neighbouring Lake Chad Basin countries. “A single case of polio is tantamount to an outbreak”, he said. He also indicated that because of the Littoral’s status as a cosmopolitan economic capital with a highly mobile population and dense living environments, all must put hands on deck to ensure that all children below five years are vaccinated. He also added that the movement of people across borders, ...