The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says more children were vaccinated than targeted during the first round of the 2022 polio immunisation exercise, held in September. Dr Kwame Amponsa-Achiano, the Manager of Expanded Programme on Immunisation, GHS, said though the Service exceeded its target, a few children could not partake…
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has launched a Novel Oral Polio Vaccine Type 2 (nOPV2) campaign in the Akuapim South Municipality of the Eastern Region. The campaign is to vaccinate a target of 9,567 children below the age of five against the Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Type 2 (cVDPV2) virus which had…
The Rotary Club of Obuasi is collaborating with the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to immunise children under five years in the Obuasi Municipal, Obuasi East and Akrofuom Districts against polio. Ghana is seeking to stop local transmission of polio virus type 2 and has commenced a nationwide polio immunization campaign…