Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Safeguards Children With New Vaccine Against Polio

[WHO-AFRO] A sub-national polio immunization campaign starts today in Sierra Leone to protect an estimated 520,000 children under five years of age using the novel Oral Polio vaccine. The campaign will run for four days and will be implemented by national and district teams and frontline health workers that will go house to house in three districts - Tonkolili, Western Area Urban and Western Area Rural districts - to immunize eligible children.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news