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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has set up a measles-rubella centre at Mulago Hospital to cater for children who were not vaccinated during the measles-rubella and polio mass immunization campaign.
According to Emmanuel Ainebyoona, the Ministry of Health spokesperson, even after the extension ended on Tuesday, they are still receiving calls from parents especially from Wakiso, Mukono and Kampala who say that they missed out on the exercise.
“Through our call centre people are asking about where they can immunize their children from and so we decided to put up a temporary post to cater for them”, Ainebyoona said.
On Sunday the ministry extended the exercise that had been going on since Wednesday last week.
They argued that some schools had missed out and that the stock-outs reported in various parts of the country had affected the exercise.
Dr Alfred Driwale who heads the Immunization division – Uganda Expanded Programme on Immunisation (UNEPI) at Ministry of Health said they were targeting to have 18.1 million children immunized against measles-rubella and 8.2million others against polio.
He also says that they had procured 20 million doses of measles-rubella vaccine and 10million for the polio vaccines for the entire exercise.
On Monday, Driwale said 20 million children had been already immunized even as the exercise was still going on.
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