Eastern Equatoria ended yesterday its 2010 first round of Anti-Polio campaign which was launched on Wednesday with a call upon the community to support kick polio out of the state.
The state governor, Emor Alosio Ojetuk, advised communities to allow their children to be vaccinated in order to make eastern Equatoria a free polio state, Radio Emmanuel reported.Governor Ojetuk pointed out that six cases of polio were reported in the state which could have happened due to poor response to immunization during the civil war.
The governor emphasized the need to support the Expanded Programme for Immunization department to reach out to vaccinate the children and cover all corridors of Eastern Equatoria state.
Eastern Equatoria state minister for health, Florence Night lotto, said that the vaccination exercise covers children under the age of five year.
The Expanded Programme for Immunization deployed well trained health officials to carry the exercise in different parts of the state, under the theme “Let us come together to kickoff polio free from Eastern Equatoria state.”