Kampala — THE Government plans to immunise six million children against polio and measles, the health ministry has said.
The immunisation manager, Dr. Possy Mugyenyi, said children under the age of five would be immunised from Saturday to Monday.
"We have targeted to cover 95% of the country. This would be a good step in fighting polio and measles."
Mugyenyi was addressing journalists at Hotel Africana in Kampala yesterday.
He said the sh11b exercise is funded by Unicef, the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Red Cross and the Government.
A WHOâ-àofficial, William Mbabazi, said 10 paralytic polio cases had been recently confirmed in Uganda.
He explained that eight cases were detected in Amuru and two in Moyo and Pader districts.
Mbabazi expressed concern over the fact that 2,000 polio cases were confirmed countrywide.
The assistant commissioner in-charge of health, Paul Kagwa, said they had scaled up the mobilisation to encourage the public to support the campaign.
He added that political, religious and cultural leaders would be sensitised about the exercise.
Kagwa warned that parents who sabotage the campaign would be prosecuted.
He explained that polio had been imported from the DR Congo and Southern Sudan as a result of cross-border movements. Uganda had been declared free of polio since 1996 and was certified in October 2006.
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Dear Ugandans!
How awful that Ugandan parents will be prosecuted if they refuse these vaccines! But please! do your own research before accepting them. They are not safe! Please keep track of all bad reactions and send them to newsnvic@gmail.com a vaccine research center in the US.
Go to http://www.drcarley.com for more about vaccine dangers. Rebecca Carley's son was damaged by vaccines. She has the best collection of facts on the internet. Listen to her shows. Email your bad reaction reports to her, too.
Please please REFUSE THE MEASLES VACCINE. It causes the brain inflammation which creates autism. In the US autism is at EPIDEMIC proportions (one per hundred). It used to be extremely rare. What are Uganda's rates of autism? Keep track in areas that get the measles vaccine and see how many new cases of autism occur. It will show up in a few days to several months.
The polio vaccine has always been tainted with cancer viruses. Yes it may stop polio (although that's debated) but over half of your citizens will come down with cancer later on in life. Not a single study has been done to show if any vaccine is really safe or really protects people from disease! It's a BIG MONEYMAKER and a big way to introduce disease and sterility into poor populations.
NO country in Africa is safe from western vaccination programs. These are funded by well-known racist population-reduction agencies who are NOT concerned with your health but are VERY concerned that you are having many beautiful black babies! (Praise the Lord!)
DO NOT accept western food aid in the form of GMO grains, oils, soy and flour. Corn has been genetically modified to attack male sperm! Get the book "Seeds of Destruction" by William Engdahl.