2023-04-25 14:10:24
Since this Monday, the 24th, children from zero to five years old, women of childbearing age and pregnant women began to be immunized across the country, with different vaccines, including the new rotavirus vaccine.
According to a statement from the Ministry of Health, the campaign, with wide national coverage, “aims to immunize the largest number of children and women, who during the COVID-19 pandemic were prevented from having routine vaccines” once morest measles , BCG, Polio, Pneumo, Yellow Fever, Neonatal Tetanus and Meningitis.
The launch of the vaccination campaign took place in Luanda during the official opening of the 13th edition of the African Vaccination Week, which this year takes place under the motto “Vaccinated population, healthy population”. The Zero-Doses Plan was also launched, which includes children without any vaccination dose.
More than 500 thousand children in Angola do not have any dose of vaccine, both in rural and urban areas. The aim of this campaign, says the statement, is “to raise the level of immunity in children and reduce infant and maternal morbidity and mortality, as well as encourage the fight once morest neonatal and maternal tetanus”.
In addition to vaccination in health units, the heads of municipal and district health departments will lead mobile and advanced vaccination teams in places with the highest population concentration.
1682433277
#Vaccination #campaign #children #women #country #starts #Correio #Kianda
