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A four-day polio vaccination campaign commenced in South Sudan’s Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal State on Tuesday targeting more than 29,000 children aged between 0-5 years across the state, officials said.
An official at the Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal State’s health ministry, John Agany Deng said around 800 vaccinators were deployed after the ministry received vaccines from Juba.
“The state has been preparing to launch the second round, especially for polio vaccination operations. We managed to employ 825 teams of vaccinators across the five counties of Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal State. We also received our vaccines, a total number of 18,259, to cover the targeted areas for immunization,’’ Agany said.