The Head of Disease Surveillance at the Ghana Health Service, Dr Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe has revealed that a nationwide polio vaccination will begin early next year from children under five years across the country.

He spoke that before the exercise, children in selected districts where fresh cases has been found would be vaccinated starting this week.

10 cases have been reported in the Oti and Bono Regions since June this year and according to him, 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.

He made this known whiles speaking on the occasion of the second Scientific Conference and Competency Graduation Ceremony of the Ghana Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programme (GFELTP) in Accra.

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The program was themed, “Building and Sustaining Field Epidemiology Workforce through GFELTP: The Role of Government, Private Sector and Institutional partners”.

At the end of the conference, 58 field epidemiologists made up of 28 frontline officers, 15 intermediate officers and 15 advanced officers were graduated.

Dr. Aseidu-Bekoe attributed the sudeen increase In the spread of the disease to a gap in the treatment regimen, meaning some children were not vaccinated and that could account for the new cases.

He commended the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organisation for helping contain the situation in the country and beyond, adding that he was confident that the polio disease was going to be eradicated from the world soon.