In anticipation of any reappearance of the coronavirus disease, the medical region of Sédhiou, with the financial and technical support of the USAID/OWOD project, is undertaking an active phase of mass vaccination. The official launch ceremony took place yesterday, Friday September 30, under the authority of the regional governor. This month of October will be devoted to the active phase of acceleration to be evaluated at the beginning of November, in particular indicated the team leader of this project.
With the financial support of the USAID / OWOD project, the medical region of Sédhiou is starting this October the active phase of acceleration of vaccination once morest coronavirus disease. This is the whole meaning of the launch yesterday, Friday, of this project under the authority of Modou Guèye, the deputy governor of Sédhiou in charge of administrative affairs. Dr Amadou Yéri Camara, the chief medical officer of the Sédhiou medical region indicated that “the Sédhiou region, like many regions of Senegal, must make up for a fairly large gap in relation to vaccination once morest Covid-19. 19. At the regional level, many initiatives have been carried out so we should not wait for outbreaks to wake up. This is also why the State has requested the contribution of partners to help us in anticipation,” he says.
This revival aims, according to him, to prohibit any reappearance of the disease: “certainly the populations do not screen themselves all the time but you have seen that cases of influenza are always there and which can make think of covid-19”. All the components of the community are mobilized and the head doctor of the medical region Dr Amadou Yéri Camara reassures of the permanent availability of the vaccine: “for more than a month, we have not had any cases of covid here but do not having cases does not mean an actual absence of cases in the community. We are going to involve the entire community of the region of Sédhiou as well as grassroots community organizations, religious, local authorities, teachers, players in the popular national championship commonly called Navétane. And we have a very good availability of vaccine. Just in time, we have a vaccine supply system,” said the head doctor of the Sédhiou medical region.
The USAID/OWOD project declares to provide all the means necessary to achieve the objectives. The assurances are from Cheick Sidya Gassama, the team leader of the USAID/OWOD project, “in a very simple way, it is to find the means and make them available. These are the financial means but also the human resources. The USAID/OWOD project dispatched a team who came to work alongside the head doctor and the management team of the Sédhiou medical region to plan down to the last detail the activities that would produce results”. The field actions start at the beginning of October and an evaluation is planned for next November to measure the impact of the campaign.
Moussa DRAME
