The Lamu polio jab campaign is a success

Lamu County reached 106 percent of children vaccinated against polio in the first phase of the campaign that has just completed, targeting the least five years old

. A five-day campaign began, the Lamu County Health Department had announced that it was aiming for at least 95 percent success, which translates to about 21,217 children.

S Addressing Journalists in Lamu When Publication of Immunization Report Lamu County Deputy Health Services Director Victor Tole said that a total of 22,565 children under the age of five years had been vaccinated.

The first phase of the campaign took place between July 11 and July 15. 18,875 children were vaccinated in Lamu West sub-county while 3,690 were vaccinated in Lamu East.

For the first time, most children from Basuba and other villages At various times, the children of Basuba and the surrounding Boni Forest missed vaccination against polio or received vaccination very late because of insecurity problems attributed to Al-Shabaab attacks. activists.

"We are pleased that the first phase of poliomyelitis vaccination in our county has been successfully completed, first, our goal as a Ministry of Health was to ensure that vaccination was administered. to at least 95% of the kids here. "We thank God that we have finally managed to exceed the goal and achieve a 106% achievement mark." Lamu West is particularly well behaved when recording 109 percent while Lamu East had 94 percent, "said Dr. Tole

James Mbugua, Lamu County's disease surveillance officer, said: According to a recent report from the monitoring office, Lamu's resistance against polio and measles are still at their lowest.

But Mbugua said that the percentage can easily increase if local officials of the public health promotion of Lamu Township, Mohamed Muhsin, said the landlocked areas in eastern Lamu East like those around the Boni forest are particularly hard to reach for vaccination