Guinean Prime Minister Amadou Oury Bah launched a mass vaccination campaign against measles on Saturday in the administrative region of Siguiri (north-east).
CONAKRY, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) — Guinean Prime Minister Amadou Oury Bah launched a mass vaccination campaign against measles on Saturday in the administrative region of Siguiri (northeast).
This aims to prevent the paralysis of several thousand children aged 0 to 59 months and to promote good growth in targeted children.
Kicking off the vaccination campaign, the Prime Minister declared that it was “a duty and an obligation in favor of the population”. “The child must be protected and the mother must be made aware of the need to vaccinate children against measles,” he added.
Very dangerous and contagious, measles is responsible for the deaths of thousands of children around the world, underlined the Guinean Minister of Health and Public Hygiene, Oumar Diouhé Bah.
Referring to statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO), he recalled that in 2022, there had been more than 132,000 deaths due to measles. Most of these deaths involved children under the age of five.■
