Via Radio Moto Butembo-Beni: Butembo: start of the polio vaccination campaign. The Google translation:
Beginning Monday, October 07, 2019, of a new campaign of integrated vaccination against poliomyelitis in zone of health Butembo and Katwa. This campaign is coupled with vitamin A supplementation, and deworming with Mebendazole. The related ceremonies were held during the parade at Butembo City Hall.
The ceremonies were presided over by Butembo's chief health officer. Dr. KAMBALE MASINGO Ezra has circumscribed that the beneficiaries are children aged between 0 and 5 years old. The health minister wants to prevent several infections and allow them to grow well, said the chief zone doctor.
Doctor KAMBALE MASINGO Ezra calls on parents to welcome community relays Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday so that their children can be vaccinated.
"The children must always be vaccinated. The children have to get the vaccine, because we never know ... Polio, it must be said that it is a viral disease. And this disease causes paralysis. It is flaccid paralysis. So the child has limbs that are flaccid, he does not know how to move, he does not know how to stand. And this disease when it reaches the child who walked normally, it can be found on the ground," he explained.
This doctor from the Butembo health zone has guaranteed that his services will soon be able to recover children who will miss vaccination in this campaign.
During this sensitization, some children were vaccinated in the presence of participants. The meeting was attended by Unicef agents. These Congolese state partners promised to accompany the Ministry of Health throughout this campaign.
