Cameroon to introduce new vaccine against pneumonia

  1. Posted on Thursday 30 June 2011 - 11:05
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    Walter Wilson Nana, AfricaNews reporter in Buea, Cameroon
    Cameroon has announced the introduction of the vaccine against Pneumococal infection. The country's minister of public health, Andre Mama Fouda said children from the ages of 0 - 11 months, will from Friday begin receiving, free of charge, anti-pneumococal vaccine that protects children against pneumonia and meningitis.
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    The aforementioned diseases, caused by pneumococcal germ, either kill young children or leave them seriously handicapped.

    As part of the promotion of health in Cameroon, Mama Fouda has invited Cameroonian parents to get their children vaccinated in all health centres and hospitals in order to protect them from these infections.

    Addressing journalists and traditional broadcasters in the Southwest Region of Cameroon, in the build up to the launch come July 1, Southwest Regional Delegate of Public Health, Dr. John Chuwanga said the introduction of Pneumo-Vaccine – PVC-13 is intended to promote better health for all Cameroonians and the African continent in general.

    “The Governor of the Southwest Region will be doing the regional launch on July 1 at the Bokwaongo Health District as an indication and clarion call for all Cameroonians to protect their children from contacting the diseases,” he said.

    Thaddeus Chick, Social Mobiliser at the Southwest Regional Delegation of Public Health reassured that there are enough quantity of the vaccines to all the children in the required age bracket in the region. “These vaccines are meant to develop immunity for the children against streptococcal pneumonia and meningitis,” he explained.

    A statement from the Ministry of Public Health noted that diseases caused by pneumococcal germ constitute a public health problem all over the world. “Pneumonia, otitis and meningitis caused by pneumoccal germ are more frequent in children between 2 months and 3 years,” the statement continued.

    In Cameroon, there is a surveillance site for bacterial meningitis in the Mother and Child Centre of the Chantal Biya Foundation located in the Yaounde Central Hospital. Supported by WHO, in the framework of the infections surveillance network in African region, the centre became fully functional in 2003 and collects meningitis suspected cases in children between two months and five years.

    With pneumococcal infections now a public health problem in Cameroon, the Ministry of Public Health has found it necessary to introduce the Pneumo-Vaccine – PVC-13 against these infections. Hence, whatever the antigen (vaccine), the person vaccinated will be protected if he or she has received all required doses.

    Chick added that vaccination “does not cause diseases, on the contrary it protects against the disease for which the child or the woman is vaccinated.”

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