BURKINA Faso aims to vaccinate five million children against polio in a two-day nationwide campaign next week, the director of preventive medicine Clement Zidouemba said on Tuesday. Zidouemba said children under age five would be targetted in the programme, which starts next Monday. The drive is sponsored by the World Health Organisation (WHO). WHO’s representative in Burkina Faso, Mohamed Hacen, said preventive measures were necessary because polio is endemic in neighbouring Ivory Coast and Ghana, as well as nearby Nigeria. – AFP
Tuesday October 16, 2001