CAMPAIGN ON CHILD HEALTH BEGINS IN WEST GONJA

By Alhassan Mesuna

The Integrated Maternal and Child Health Campaign is being organised in the West Gonja District of the Northern Region. The three days campaign is under the theme “Healthy Mothers and Children Make a Better Ghana”.

In a press release signed by the West Gonja District Disease Control Officer, Mr. Gearge M. Alhassan stated that Ghana Health Service is targeting pregnant women, lactating mothers, and Children from birth to five years.

Under this programme according to him children from six months to five years old and lactating mothers up to eight weeks after delivery shall be given Vitamin A supplementation, Polio vaccination for children from birth to five years, deworming of children aged two to five years, as well as distribute Insecticides Treated Nets (ITN) to children under one year and pregnant women.

According to the release the District Health Directorate would reach out to all communities in the district from 16th to 18th October, 2008.