A/R: GHS begins administering new injectable side-effect-free polio vaccines

The Ghana Health Service in the Ashanti Region is replacing all oral administered polio vaccines with injectable vaccines.

Ghana has made impressive strides eradicating poliomyelitis since it launched its expanded program of immunization exercise in the year 1996.

Nationwide, the country recorded its last case of polio in the year 2008 with the Ashanti region recording its last confirmed case of polio in the year 1999

For years, the oral polio vaccine has been administered to children under five to protect them from the condition that leaves children crippled or deformed for life.

But following side effects recorded from the oral vaccines and some complications identified by scientists; the World Health Organisation and its partners have introduced the injectable vaccine which will be rolled out across the country with the Ashanti region expected to begin administering the vaccine by Thursday June First.

Ashanti regional director of the health service Dr Emmanuel Tinkorang told Ultimate News the vaccines which are expected to be administered to some 200 thousand children are proven efficacious.

He explained, “This new one is an inactivated injectable vaccine. This vaccine is better than the oral one which is part of the vaccines which can cause some side effects compared to what we are going to introduce now.”

He told reporter Ivan Heathcote – Fumador his outfit is well staffed and has the logistics needed to carry out this exercise successfully.

Dr Tinkorang however advised that the public cooperates with the medical staff that will be deployed across the region.

 

 

 

By: Ghana/Ultimatefmonline.com/106.9FM/Ivan Heathcote-Fumador

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