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Kpone-Katamanso health directorate begins IPV campaign

The Kpone Katamanso health directorate in the Greater Accra Region has begun the 2020 National Inactive Polio vaccine (IPV) campaign across the Municipality.

Date Created : 2/19/2020 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : Isaac Newton Tetteh

The week-long exercise, is on the theme, "Protect your child from polio, get your child vaccinated" and expected to cover over 10,052 children between the ages of one year nine months to four years old.

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in Kpone, Dr. Esther Priscila Biamah-Danquah, Municipal Health Director, Kpone Katamanso, revealed that Ghana Health Services planned to introduce the Inactive Polio Vaccine (IPV) into routine immunization in April 2016 but the actual introduction took place in June 2018.

According to her, over two million children born from January 2016 to February 2018, had missed out on the IPV vaccination saying the children did not have protection against the poliovirus type two and could remain at risk hence the need to vaccinate them to ensure maximum protection.

Mrs. Danquah explained that Polio affected both children and adults but children under five years were most vulnerable and called on parents and school heads to cooperate effectively to ensure a successful exercise.

The World Health Organization (WHO) had declared Ghana a polio-free Nation but some suspected cases of Polio had been detected in the Northern and the Greater Accra Regions hence the need for Polio immunization in these two regions.

Thirty-four health officers had been deployed into the various local institutions including, Pre-schools, Churches, Mosques, Market places, and homes within the Kpone-Katamanso Municipality for the exercise.