Polio Vaccination Campaign in Angola targets 100.000 Children with questionable Vaccine | nsnbc international

Polio Vaccination Campaign in Angola targets 100.000 Children with questionable Vaccine | nsnbc international

  Almost 100.000 children under the age of five are being targeted for vaccination against polio in the Luanda Sul province of Angola, confirms the Angolan Ministry of Health. The vaccination campaign is the third stage of a nationwide vaccination campaign. Critics warn that the polio vaccine’s safety record is questionable, stressing that tens of thousands of children in India have died after receiving the vaccine.

 

The health director of Luanda Sul province, Samuquinda Maria Costa, informs that some 112.000 doses of the vaccine have been made available. 664 volunteers and 45 vehicles have been mobilized in the region, 800 kilometers southeast of the Angolan capital Luanda, informs Costa.

The regional health director stressed, that the campaign, which was launched on Friday, is specifically prioritizing isolated border regions near the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Deputy Governor of the Luanda Sul province, Joao Baptista Manaca Abreu has been calling on all heads of all households  as well as on tutors to allow the health volunteers to vaccinate their children with the polio vaccine.