Africa-Press – Malawi. Following the recent detective of Poliovirus type 1 that was imported from Pakistan, Malawi government has set aside the pandemic elimination strategy through vaccine.
Addressing the media in Lilongwe, Deputy Minister of Health Enock Phale said government has put Polio elimination strategies that are in line with the World Health Organization (WHO).
According to Phale Polio immunization remain the most reliable strategy to fight the disease apart from sanitation and other strategies. Phale further disclosed that the ministry of health will introduce supplementary polio immunization in two weeks time that children be fully protect from the disease
He said the ministry would like to assure the nation that government with support from their partners will do everything possible to control the situation.
Phale therefore called upon political leaders, religious leaders and community leaders to support Government in encouraging the communities to take part in the Polio eradication activities by taking their
children for the routine polio immunization and also for the supplemental polio immunizations which we will start soon. Meanwhile the ministry has urged the citizenry to be taking their children to hospital for Polio immunization.
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