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RDC WARNS AGAINST POLIO SABOTAGE
As the country prepares for the next round
of polio immunization this weekend, the Kasese Deputy Resident District
Commissioner, Justine Muhindo, has
thanked the residents in the district for their cooperation in the previous
exercise held earlier this year.
The next polio immunisation is scheduled
to take place from this Friday, March 28th ending with mop-up
activities on Monday, 4ht April, 2016.
The Deputy RDC, Justice Muhindo, however, noted that there are still elements with
tendencies to sabotage the national programme.
Muhindo warned that such elements risk coming
into conflict with the law of the land should they attempt to sabotage the
national programme because that amounts to destroying the future of the
children.
Justine
Muhindo was this morning
closing a polio immunization preparatory meeting held at the Kasese District
Health Department Board Room at the district headquarters.
The preparatory meeting was chaired by an Assistant
Chief Administrative Officer (ACAO), Mr.
Johnson Mutungwanda.
Mr.
Mutungwanda urged all
the residents and leaders at all levels to help in mobilsing the community for
the polio immunization.
The Acting District Health Officer, Dr Yusuf Baseka, called to team work.
The National Immunisation Days Supervisor
from the Ministry of health, Mr. Fred
Mulabya, said the forthcoming polio immunization will be door-to-door.
Mr.
Mulabya said the immunisation will
involve dropping the polio vaccine into the mouths of children aged 0-59 months.
Mulabya
said the purpose of repeated polio
immunisation in Uganda is because the country is still under threat of polio
infections from some neighbouring countries.
He said the repeated polio immunization is
aimed at ensuring that the country kicks out polio by 2018.
He further said unlike the previous
exercise, which involved sixty distorts, the forthcoming round will cover all
the 112 districts of the country.
The meeting was also attended by the
District Internal Security Organisation (DISO) boss, Nicholas Mugabi, the O.C
Ibuga Prison, Ivan Sseremba, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, Alison
Arinda among others.
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