Health workers instrumental to immunization, Somalia commends on World Polio Day
MOGADISHU, 24 October 2020 – On World Polio Day today, Somalia is celebrating polio workers’ continued commitment to reach and immunize every child in the country to end all forms of polio, and the role they play in strengthening health systems and responding to health emergencies. Since the inception of Somalia’s polio eradication programme in…, Notes to editors, The strain of polio in circulation in Somalia is different from the wild poliovirus, recently declared eradicated from Africa, but it can also put communities where not enough children have been vaccinated at risk and leave children paralyzed for life. There are multiple strains of polio, and there is a critical distinction between wild or…