Children between zero and 59 months old living in six districts of the country will from September 4 to 7, this year, be vaccinated against polio.
The areas to be covered are Chereponi, Bumkurugu, Gushegu, Saboba, Tamale and Sagnarigu.
The exercise, Round Zero of Three Rounds of Polio Immunization, is the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and its partners immediate response to the case of a two-year-old girl who had tested positive to having the Type Two polio virus in Chereponi and, also, detection of type two polio virus in environmental samples from the Tamale metropolis in the Northern Region last July.
The Deputy Programs Manager of the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI), Mr John Frederick Dadzie, who disclosed this in an interview with the Daily Graphic, indicated that round one of the exercise would come off in October this year and would target children between the same age group living in the entire Northern and Upper East regions.
