Sunday, February 09, 2014
Kabul (BNA) A three day regional campaign of polio vaccination will be launched on Sunday Feb 9, in 13 urban and 2 rural districts of Kabul told head of mass immunity Dr. Ahmad Jawed Mohsenzadah to reporters adding, with the registration of a polio case in 15th district of Kabul on Dec13, 2013, totally 14 positive polio cases in 2013 were recorded in the country.
And in the beginning of Jan 2014 only one positive polio case recorded in Laghman and 5 cases in Pakistan.
The recorded polio virus in Kabul transmitted from Pakistan, therefore the MoPH, WHO and UNICEF have launched extraordinary regional cleaning campaign in Kabul city in order to prevent rapid transmission of polio virus from district 15 to other districts of Kabul.
In current round except the 55, 6,7 and 13 districts other district including Deh Sabz and Bagrami will be covered by polio vaccination campaign.
Dr. Mohsenzada added, in this round 734000 children under 5 years will be vaccinated.
The campaign will be implemented house to house by 39 coordinators, 288 supervisors and 3112 volunteers and the campaign process will be monitored by 33 monitors and after campaign will be monitored by 72 monitors and 190 propagators, will attended the campaign.
He asked the parents and inhabitants of Kabul city to vaccinate their children including new born babies, patients or even slept children. If a child fails, he/she should be taken to nearest health clinic and be vaccinated.
If an area remained without vaccine the people should contact the in charge of mass immunity center and central regions of WHO in Kabul: 0700384673/ 070507883.
It should be mention that at present merely the three countries of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria are those countries in the world in which still the wild virus of polio exists and faced the children with serious challenge of polio.
Therefore national vaccination campaigns are launched in different seasons.
