Children bellow five years in Uganda received extra doses of oral polio vaccine even if they had already been immunized and children aged six months to 59 months received measles vaccine irrespective of the previous immunization status and vitamin A supplementation.

The Mister for health Christine Androa says that it’s now a policy in Uganda for parents to bring their children for routine immunization against the 8 killer immunisable childhood diseases: Polio, Measles, Diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, tuberculosis, Hepatitis B, and haemophilus influenza type B.

The minister says that when all children under five years receive drops of polio vaccine at the same time, the circulation of the virus that causes polio is interrupted. He says that once immunization is properly conducted it will lead to eradication of polio in Uganda. According to the national immunization progamme, June and July rounds of polio immunization exercise would be conducted from house to house.