The Ghana health service (GHS) in a partnership with the ministry of health on Thursday launched a six -day national measles -Rubella vaccination and vitamin. An extra campaign to improve the general health and survival of Ghanaian children.
The campaign, targeted at ensuring healthy lives and promoting well – being for all ages to help decrease the number of measles -rubella cases in the country.
This campaign, is expected to begin from October 17 to 22,2018 is aiming at injecting over four million children from nine months to under five years in all the 216 districts.
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The Theme for this campaign is “measles -rubella kills;vaccinate your child Now for Good life”.
Dr George Bonsu, the program manager stretch program on immunisation (EPI), said data indicated that measles kills almost 90,000 people globally each year and it was a leading cause of death in children under five years.
He continued by saying measles had been the major killer before the 1980’s and ranked second to malaria in Ghana,adding that reports had revealed that 100,000 children are born with congential rubella syndrome(CRS) globally.
Mr kwaku Agyemang ended by expressing his gratitude to all development partners who supported Ghana financially, logistically and technically towards the campaign adding that children are the most precious resource and hence, the need to do all that was possible to avoid them from disabilities or deaths due to Measles- rubella.
