AN eligible child receives a vaccine during the kick-off ceremony of the Measles-Rubella and Oral Polio Vaccine Supplemental Immunization Activity at the Barangay Carmen Hall covered court in Cagayan de Oro City on May 2.
Prior to the start of the Measles-Rubella and Oral Polio Vaccine Supplemental Immunization Activity , health officials said that despite the immunization status of the children, they would still be given the vaccines as additional protection against the said viral diseases. As of June 4, Cagayan de Oro has inoculated 47,601 children with measles-rubella vaccines and 56,523 with OPV. However, these are only 75.26 percent and 76.42 percent coverage, respectively, out of the 95 percent target set by the DOH.
"If you check our actual population, the discrepancy is big. That’s why we continuously look for all of the children aged zero to 59 months," Chiu said in a mix of English and vernacular. DOH Undersecretary Beverly Lorraine Ho, who graced the MR-OPVSIA kick-off activity in this city, earlier said the country needs to catch up as it did not achieve the 95 percent target coverage for the last couple of years due to the height of the pandemic, saying that the country only achieved below 65 percent.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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