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Program manager of maternal child health in the ministry of health and sanitation has confirmed that Polio viruses are common in children under the age of five.
The recent stipulation by the Federal Government of December 2009 as deadline for the eradication of Poliomyelitis (polio) throughout the country is indeed a bold step towards putting a definite end to the dreaded child-killer disease. With the deadline, it appears the government has finally found a way round the factors that have for long rubbished its efforts at making the country polio-free ...
DELTA State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Joseph Otumara, has officially confirmed that there was outbreak of poliomyelitis in five local government areas of the state, just as he called on parents and guardians to bring up their children and wards for what he described as "another round of supplemental immunization".
Health officials in Benin are scheduled to conduct polio vaccinations from 26 to 29 June, one month after the campaign was suspended because of a health workers' strike.
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