The Ghana Health Service has begun their vaccination exercise to contain the outbreak of poliomyelitis in the Bono Regions.

10 cases were reported in the Oti and Bono Regions since June last year and according to the Head of Disease Surveillance at the Ghana Health Service, Dr Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe, since the first polio was found in the environment in Tamale, there had been 10 cases in humans and several others picked from the environment.

The exercise begun on Wednesday, January 8 is set to be completed on Saturday, January 11, 2020. It will also cover the Oti Region.

According to the Deputy Bono Regional Director of Public Health, Dr John Ekow Otoo, who is also in charge of the Bono East and the Ahafo regions, the Ghana Health Service has targeted 570,864 children under five years of immunization against the disease in the three regions.

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He revealed that teams involved would move from one house to the other and visit schools. He added that posts at the various health facilities would be established to immunize the children. The second round of the exercise according to Dr Otoo would be organized in the four regions from February 5 to 8 this year.

The outbreak has led to the death of two children in the Ahafo and the Bono East regions, while a third child is battling for survival at the Sunyani Municipal Hospital.

The first victim was a 33-month-old female from Sisala line, a suburb of Techiman in the Bono East Region, while the second death involved a 37-month-old male from Kwasuso, a farming community in the Asutifi South District in the Ahafo Region.

The third child, who is undergoing treatment, is a two-year-old female from Asiri, another farming community in the Jaman North District in the Bono Region.