The Information Services Department in Bawku in the Upper East Region of Ghana has started a 3-day intensive Public Sensitization Campaign towards this year’s National Immunization Day (NID).
The purpose of the campaign is to create public awareness and also encourage them especially women to make their children within the age group of 0-59 months available for the impending exercise.
The NID is slated for 25th to 28th March 2009, during which all children within the age brackets of 0-59 months will be dosed with Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV).
These will be done by mobile teams from House to House and in all schools to immunize all eligible children.
Additional, parents can visit all health centres with their children to take the Oral Polio Vaccine.
The Cinema Van, man by competent field officers will disseminate this important information to all communities to enable a comprehensive coverage and success of the exercise.
According to the Municipal Director of Health Services Dr. T. Mensah Afful, this year’s NID is special and very important to the extend that, the neighboring districts of Tone and Bittou in the Republic of Togo and Burkina Faso respectively and the Bawku Municipal Health Directorate have agreed to organize a launching ceremony at the kulugungu border to create an international awareness and approach towards the fight against polio.
James Dorgbetor
Bawku Municipal Information Officer
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