DRC vaccination campaign for displaced in North Kivu
A vaccination campaign targeting thousands of displaced children and pregnant women is to commence next week in a camp in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), health officials said.
"In seven days, at least 22,000 children between the ages of six months and 15 years will be vaccinated against measles," Stéphane Bateyi, the coordinator of the vaccination programme in Goma, the main town in the province, said.
At least 6,400 children aged between one and five years will also be given deworming medicine, Bateyi said on 11 September.
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