Polio program to continue after some miss out
Health officials are to continue their polio vaccination campaign beyond the official end of the program, which was on 22 February, as it emerged that even in downtown Yangon less than half the under-fives eligible had been inoculated.
The US$4 million Supplementary Polio Immunisation Campaign targeted 4.6 million children, to be vaccinated in the three-day period of February 20 to 22. But as of last night, officials in Yangon’s Kyauktada township admitted that they had reached only 47.9 percent of the children they had targeted on 20 and 21 February. Health officials were unable or declined to give figures for other townships.
