Meningitis vaccination campaign starts in North Darfur
On Thursday, a vaccination campaign against meningitis among children was launched in North Darfur.
“We are targeting 293,575 children between one year and four years,” the head of the North Darfur immunisation department, Ahmed Mohamed El Doma, told the press in the capital El Fasher.
He appealed to the parents in the state to let their children be vaccinated to avoid contracting the deadly disease.
On Thursday, a vaccination campaign against meningitis among children was launched in North Darfur.
“We are targeting 293,575 children between one year and four years,” the head of the North Darfur immunisation department, Ahmed Mohamed El Doma, told the press in the capital El Fasher.
He appealed to the parents in the state to let their children be vaccinated to avoid contracting the deadly disease.
The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) announced in July this year that about 720,000 children under one year of age in Sudan will be vaccinated this year against meningitis through the routine immunisation system.
Meningitis is a serious life-threatening infection that affects the brain and spinal cord. Meningitis in Africa mainly occurs within the meningitis belt which stretches from Senegal to Ethiopia, putting about 430 million people at risk.
Sudan falls within the Meningitis Belt and accounts for about two in every 100 cases (15 per cent), according to WHO Global Disease Burden Data.
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