By Emmanuel Akayeti
The Upper East Regional branch of the Ghana Red Cross Society (GRCS), in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has organised a sensitisation durbar at the Punyoro and Yitognia communities in the Kassen Nankana Municipality.
The durbar was to sensitise the community about the second round of the polio vaccination, which comes off on October 6–9, 2022.
The Punyoro and Yitognia are farming communities with a population of about 950 people that did not get the required polio vaccination during the first round of the exercise.
In an interview at Punyoro, the Upper East Regional Manager of the Ghana Red Cross Society, Paul Wooma, said community mobilisation is part of their social mandate and in support of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), to reach every child in the second round of the polio exercise.
Mr Wooma stated that the first round mobilised communities for the exercise and the second round is collaboration with the Ghana Red Cross to mobilise communities to send their children for the exercise.
The Upper East Regional Health Promotion Officer, Rexford King James Adjei, indicated that the recent campaign was triggered by the environmental sample that was taken from the Polio laboratory in July 2022.
He said, upon the advice of the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and other partners, the first campaign was carried out from the first to the fourth of September, and the second round is scheduled to take place from the 6th of October to the 9th.
