IMMUNIZATION
Immunization is meaningful to
me because it prents deathand various diseases in children if taken as
schedule. Unfortunately, most parents do
not get their children immunized accordingly and this leads to various
preventable diseases like whooping cough, malaria, Hepatitis B, etc. in children
and at times may lead to death.
In South Africa, immunization
is given to children in order to prevent diseases. However, in order to reduce the mortality
rate of children under age five, South Africa has now introduce two more
vaccines; Pneumococcus conjugate and Rotavirus, to the conutruy’s immunization
programme. Pneumococcus conjugate vaccine is to protect against diseases such
as pneumonia, meningitis etc, while the Rotavirus vaccine is to protect against
diarrhoea among infants under five years.
The South Africa health department is working to have the vaccines
available to the East this year and nationally by March next year. It is estimated that the introduction f these
vaccines will save the lives of about 14 children each day or more than 4,700
deaths per year from pneumococcal pneumonia and viral diarrhea.
With this information about the
importance of immunization, once I start the educational outfit, I would include the immunization reminder on the
newsletter every school term and also include it on the discussion list on
every Parents/Teachers Forum (PTF).
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