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Displaced Children at Myaing Gyi Ngu IDP Camp Vaccinated
Over 200 children at the Myaing Gyi Ngu internally displaced persons camp have received their first ever inoculations this week, amid a joint vaccination drive by the Karen Department of Health and Welfare and the state health department.
Between July 4-6 children under five were given a slew of vaccines protecting against tuberculosis, tetanus, chickenpox, diphtheria, pertussis, hepatitis B, pneumococcal disease, measles and polio.
“The children here [at the Myaing Gyi Ngu IDP shelter] are from areas where we couldn’t previously administer vaccines so they have never seen vaccines before,” said Dr Naing Naing Tun, deputy director of Karen State’s Expanded Program on Immunization. “Some of them ran away as they were afraid. They don’t understand the value of vaccines.”