The Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Department of Health, Busia County, targets to immunize 495,805 children in the forthcoming mass vaccination campaign on measles rubella and typhoid conjugal slated for July 5th to 14th this year.
Speaking during a stakeholder sensitization forum at Busia County Referral Hospital on Wednesday, the County Health Promotion Officer, Nelson Andanje, said that the measles-rubella vaccine will be administered to a total of 114,758 children aged between nine months to 59 months, while TCV will be administered to 381,042 children aged between nine months and 14 years. "The vaccination exercise will be conducted in all the public and private health facilities, churches, mosques, and markets," he said, adding that some mobile stations will also be available.
Andanje stated that the initiative was arrived at following reports of sporadic episodes across the country.
He further explained that the vaccines will be administered to all the targeted children irrespective of whether they have adhered to the immunization schedule fully since they were born.
