By Peter Seebulime
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has set up a measles-rubella centre at Mulago Hospital to cater for children who were not vaccinated during the measles-rubella and polio mass immunization campaign.
According to Emmanuel Ainebyoona, the Ministry of Health spokesperson, even after the extension ended on Tuesday, they are still receiving calls from parents especially from Wakiso, Mukono and Kampala districts who say they missed out on the exercise.
On Sunday the ministry extended the exercise that had been going on since last week Wednesday October 16Â to 20,2019 for two days ending Oct 23.
They argued that some schools had missed out and the stock-outs reported in various parts of the country had affected the exercise.
Dr Alfred Driwale, who heads the Immunization division – Uganda Expanded Programme on Immunisation (UNEPI) at MoH, said they were targeting to have 18.1 million children immunized against measles-rubella and 8.2million others against polio.
He also said that had procured 20 million doses of measles-rubella vaccine and 10million for the polio vaccines for the entire exercise.
On Monday, Driwale said 20 million children had been already immunized even as the exercise was still going on.
