Expanding polio vaccine coverage
Published on: Sunday, January 12, 2020
By: Mardinah Jikur
SANDAKAN: The provision of Polio oral vaccine to 10,000 children and teens under 15 will be expanded throughout the state.
State Minister of Health and Peoples Wellbeing Datuk Frankie Poon Ming Fung said he had changed the strategy by giving the vaccine to people aged 15 and under as there were cases involving the age of 11 compared to five years earlier.
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“Among the focus areas were three cases involving a local baby in Tuaran and two (foreigners) cases each in Sandakan and Kinabatangan where 11- and 8-year-old children and adolescents were detected in December. We will make sure that everyone gets the vaccine as well, and we have been to Pulau Berhala Sandakan and have given 2,000 vaccines to children and adolescents in the area,” he added.
Later, they will also go to Batu Sapi, Kinabatangan and other areas. His advice is that non-citizens also get vaccinated at a hospital or clinic for polio prevention.
In addition, Poon also hopes parents and everyone else would practise cleanliness all the time.
He said this when met by the Media at the Lion, Unicorn and Dragon Dance Performance Gathering organized by the Sandakan Chinese Community Society at SM Yu Yuan Sandakan Hall on Saturday.
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