Via Radio Moto Butembo-Beni: Butembo: More than 120,594 children expected to be vaccinated against measles. The Google translation:
More than 120 thousand 594 children are expected in a vaccination campaign against measles in Butembo town. Officially launched by the Mayor of Butembo town, Maitre Mbusa Kanyamanda Sylvain, this Monday, December 9, 2019 at KAVITERO CASOP health center, this campaign will extend over a period of five days from 10 to 15 December.
The Acting Zone Chief Medical Officer of the Butembo Health Zone, NZANZU SALITA EUGENE, presented the characteristics of this disease in an interview with the RMBB on Monday after launch.
"It's a feverish disease. After that you can have a cough, and the child has a run in the nose, in the eyes, and the eyes can turn red. There are rashes on the child's skin. That's what makes measles. And these eruptions there which. It becomes as if a layer leaves that skin there," he said.
The Acting Chief Medical Officer adds that the choice of the vaccination site is focused on the health centers following the health situation characterized by the Ebola virus disease.
"We proceed by an injection. It's difficult to go door-to-door giving injections. We must be in a secure environment, especially since we are in an epidemic. Therefore, all precautions must be taken at last not to transmit another disease to the child. That's how the strategy is fixed. So depending on the children to cover, we can move the site. But these are the usual vaccination sites where moms know they are bringing children to routine immunization, "he added.
Breastfeeding women at these activities are calling on parents to prepare children to prevent this contagious disease.
