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The mother-child health week has been officially launched

ByWebmaster

Jul 8, 2022

RUYIGI July 8th (ABP) – The first lady of Burundi, Mrs. Angeline Ndayishimiye, proceeded, on Wednesday July 6, 2022, to the official launch of the activities of the mother-child health week, first session 2022. Those ceremonies were marked by the deworming of children under 5 and pregnant women.

The Minister of Public Health and the Fight against AIDS as well as the representative of the WHO had honored those ceremonies with their presence.

In his welcoming address, the governor of Ruyigi province, Mrs. Emerencienne Tabu, indicated that this province has forecasts for 102,473 children aged between 6 and 59 months, expected receive vitamin A. the deworming with Albendazole, for children aged between 11 and 14 will be administered to 261,131, while pregnant women who will benefit from this deworming with Albendazole are 15,962 in number.

Governor Tabu invited all sectors of life and especially the local administration of that province to raise awareness for all the concerned to be served.

The WHO representative in Burundi, Mr. Xavier Crespin, conveyed a message from the WHO, other UN agencies and other foreign technical partners. He said that the preventive role carried out during those vaccination campaigns is of paramount importance in the life of the country insofar as it improves the health and well-being of children. He thus closed his remarks by calling on all the concerned to respond massively to the health facilities close to them so that no one is forgotten or not vaccinated.

In her speech, the first lady of Burundi recalled that the State of Burundi has been organizing these vaccination campaigns since the year 2002 and twice a year, with the objective of the millennium, to achieve zero mortality and morbidity in children under 5 and the mortality of pregnant women in particular.

She called especially on mothers to ensure that all the concerned children are served and that all pregnant women are also served. She underlined that these vaccination campaigns, which had been carried out twice a year for almost 20 years, would now be carried out in all health facilities in the country from early next year and that Albendazole would be now offered by community animators at the household level of those concerned. The Kirundo, Karusi and Bujumbura provinces are, for that purpose, taken as pilots in this new procedure, the first lady of the country revealed.