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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The Wakiso Resident District Commissioner, Ms Justine Mbabazi, has deployed police and soldiers to join health workers in carrying out the polio vaccination exercise in the district.<\/p>\n

The deployment of security personnel comes after some health workers were denied access in many private nurseries and primary schools to vaccinate children under the age of five.<\/p>\n

\u201cI received complaints from the district health officer, Mr Mathias Lugoloobi and the Wakiso education officer, Mr Fredrick Kiyingi that many private schools have totally failed to allow health workers to vaccinate children while at school. I am in the field with my security officers to see that all children are vaccinated,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cAs of now, some head teachers have been arrested for refusing children to be vaccinated. They will be prosecuted. These children are for the country not only parents or schools, and the same children have a right to be vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n

The assistant district health officer, Dr Betty Nabuganda, who is spearheading the vaccination exercise, said Wakiso received 680,000 doses of polio vaccines.<\/p>\n

She acknowledged that her team has faced some challenges while implementing the exercise.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s true many of our health workers have been locked outside schools and that\u2019s why we sought support from the RDC. We are now focusing mostly on those schools which denied us access and within two days we shall have concluded the exercise,\u201d Ms Nabuganda said.<\/p>\n

She added that Mr Kiyini wrote to schools seeking permission to allow children to be vaccinated in vain.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we asked the schools why they had denied us access, they said we should first get the permission from the parents,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The Wakiso District Health Educator, Mr Bonny Nakunda, applauded parents who have embraced the exercise and encourages those shunning the exercise to reconsider their decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know behaviour change is a gradual process, which takes some time but we ask parents and schools to avail us children to be vaccinated\u201d said Nakunda.<\/p>\n

Dr Lugoloobi called upon local council leaders to sensitise the public on polio vaccination.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems local councils have not done their work to sensitise communities; that could be the reason we still have resistance in some schools and families. LCs were given at least Shs40,000 [Shs10,000 each day for each LC1 chairman] for the exercise. So I call upon them to account for it by sensitising the public,\u201d said Dr Lugoloobi.<\/p>\n

When contacted about the issue, many school heads refused to comment.<\/p>\n

However, one head teachers, who preferred to speak on condition of anonymity, said: \u201cWe have no right over these children. If you want to vaccinate them, first contact the parents and we shall allow you to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n

jkiggundu@ug.nationmedia.com<\/b><\/p>\n

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