Polio Vaccination Campaign Starts Friday In Bengo

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  News from Angola (English)

Title: Polio Vaccination Campaign Starts Friday In Bengo
Source: ANGOP
Date: July 25, 2003
Luanda, 07/25 - Angola`s northern Bengo province is hosting today, at "Barra do Dande" locality, the official inaugural act of the National Vaccination Campaign Against Poliomyelitis, whose first phase will take place July 25-27 and the second one August 29-31 this year.

The event will be presided over by the Health Minister, Albertina Hamukuaia, in the presence of representatives from the World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF, Rotary International, USAID (campaign partners) and other guests.

According to the National Director of the Enlarged Vaccination Program (PAV), Mrs Fátima Valente, the campaign will have only two stages instead of the usual three because, as she put it, the current situation in Angola is not longer risky.

The health authorities expect to immunize, in the two phases, nearly 4.5 million children aged till five years old and, simultaneously, 3-year kids will be given A Vitamin.

Polio is a contagious illness caused by a virus which invades the nervous system and may paralyse a child in an hour time. The known symptoms of the disease are fever, fatigue, headache, vomiting, neck stiffness and limb pains.

 

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