A five-day' mass polio vaccination campaign kicked off Saturday in Garissa County targeting over 300,000 children.
The campaign, which will run up to April 16th across all the seven sub-counties of Garissa, will mainly target children at the vast Dadaab refugee camps.
The vaccines will be administered at all government medical facilities and also through door-to-door visits to ensure all targeted children are captured in the campaign's broad coverage that is running concurrently in Wajir, Mandera, Marsabit counties and neighbouring regions in Ethiopia and Somalia.
Polio is a highly infectious disease that results in paralysis and sometimes even death.
