46,724 Children In North Sumatra's Serdang Bedagai District Receive Polio Immunization Within A Week

Children are given vitamins in the context of National Child Immunization Month (ANTARA)

SEIRAMPAH - Polio immunization in Serdang Bedagai District, North Sumatra, targeted 36,724 children aged 0-59 months as an effort to anticipate the transmission of the Polio virus in the area.

Serdang Bedagai Regent Darma Wijaya said that Polio immunization through the Polio National Immunization Week Program (PIN) was carried out for a week from 13 to 19 February 2023 and for this, all immunization posts were required to be opened to provide health services.

"The implementation of the Polio PIN is not only the responsibility of the Health Service, but is a shared responsibility," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, February 14.

For this reason, on this occasion he appealed to the whole community to be able to play an active role by doing things, namely informing all levels of society about the implementation of the polio immunization.

Then, he continued, all stakeholders must mobilize people who have children aged 0-59 months to attend immunization posts that have been set in every village and school to get polio immunization.

As well as assisting health workers and health cadres in carrying out polio immunization and ensuring that all children aged 0-59 months have received the polio immunization vaccine.

He asked that the entire process be carried out together to achieve the immunization target. He even reminded that within one week the target for polio immunization in "Tanah Bertuah Negeri Beradat" could reach 100 percent.

"Our greatest hope is that the mothers and children in Serdang Bedagai are all in good health. The government can be said to be successful if the number of people admitted to the hospital is small because their health level is high," he said.