The oral polio vaccine, OPV, will be off the shelves in three years' time, government has said, because it has side effects. Government will switch to the safer injectable polio vaccine (IPV).
"By 2020, we will stop giving out OPV to children because it has side effects like high fever, pain, weakness and others. We shall only give IPV since its part of the global strategy to end Polio," said Dr Cassim Kaggwa-Ddumba, the health promotion and education officer in the ministry of Health.
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