3-day polio vaccination kicks-off in Uruzgan

TRINKOT (Pajhwok): A three-day polio vaccination campaign has kicked off in southern Uruzgan province with the hope that no child below five years of age would be left out of vaccination.

Dr. Bakht Mohammad Mustafa, head of the provincial Vaccination Department, said 237,000 children would be vaccinated with the help of tens of volunteer vaccinators in the province during the three-day campaign.

“So far in the 58 percent are of Uruzgan polio vaccination is allowed to be administered door to door while the remaining 42 percent is covered through vaccination administration in mosques, due to which up to 35,000 children missed the vital drops,” he said.

He said efforts were on to allow vaccine administration door to door in other areas of the province as well.

Some residents in Uruzgan also demanded the vaccine administration door to door.

The resident of Charchino district who wished not to be named said: “I have a daughter and a niece who missed polio vaccination two times.”

He said he and his brother have to go out for work so women inside the house don’t know about the vaccine and are unable to go out and administered vaccine to them.

He stressed polio vaccination should be implemented door to door so that no child misses the drive.

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