Choh Rejoice : Were It Not For Vaccination….
It all began with recurrent bouts of
malaria in March 2020 when Choh Rejoice was then three years 8 months old. The mother,
Veronica Choh, 30, did not waste any time in rushing her to hospital in Boumnyebel in the
Nyong and Kelle Division of Centre Region where she and the husband have been living since 2009. Though the family hails from Bafmen in
As time went on, the left side of the little girl’s body became paralysed. Not so sure of what was wrong, medical personnel decided to carry out massage on the affected part of Rejoice’s body. In the meantime. “But they later changed mind and administered only some syrups; while treating the malaria,” Veronica explains. In order to get to the roots of the problem, a sample of the child’s faeces was collected and sent to Douala for test. It turned out that the girl had been struck by the debilitating poliomyelitis or polio disease. Medical authorities now believe that the vi