The Tain District Government Hospital and the Health Directorate in Nsawkaw of the Bono Region held a polio campaign launch to educate the public on what one should know about the disease and to help curb the rate at which the disease is rising.
This launching involves all stakeholders within the district to help give the maximum education to the public.
Mr Ohene Adjei Kennedy, the District Director Of Health service in Tain in an interview with Ahenfie Nana Yaa Bosuo said, Polio is a paralysis disease that affects children below 15 years but under normal circumstances, children under 5 years are affected most. So because of that children born on day one to 5 years are required to take the vaccination. And also parents are advised to make their children available for vaccination.
Again, she said nurses will be going rounds in homes, market place, churches, mosques and all public gatherings.
She said Ghana recorded its first case of polio in 1978 and since 2008 no case was recorded in Ghana, until 2019 when the GHS started recording cases again, and most cases are been recorded in the northern part of Ghana.
Lastly, he advised that the polio doses do not harm and so the more the child is taking it the more it is preventing the child from the harmful disease so urges all parents that under no circumstances should one prevent the child from taking multiple doses he pleaded.
