An official of the Expanded Program for Immunization or EPI in Nuba Mountains calls on parents to take children for immunization.
Issa Abdullah Shangero says they give polio vaccine, Tetanus, Diphtheria and Measles to children from the age of zero to five years to protect them from the killer diseases, Radio Voice of Peace reports.
He adds that immunization is carried out within health centres’ premises and at outreach stations.
But, Abdullah points out that they experience storage problem in outreach stations since they are located in remote areas.
He says there are irregularities in the turn up for immunization; some stations have high turn up and others low.
The official blames local authorities for not passing information about immunization program to citizens at the right time.
Abdullah says the immunization outreach program started in 2015 after realizing low turn up for vaccination in remote areas.
Moreover, hundreds of thousands of children in the Nuba Mountains have no access to immunization due to difficult political situation in the region.