Parents in Nyamira County have been asked to make sure that their children are vaccinated to avoid the risk of being attacked by diseases.
Speaking at Tinga town during the vaccination sensitization period, Nyamira medical officer July Nyanchama said that the County was in advanced stages to make sure that every village will be assigned to one community health volunteer who will monitor their state of health.
Saying that a healthy community is a prosperous one, she asked every parent to make sure that their young children got access to appropriate health services.
“Diseases like whooping cough and tuberculosis can kill our children and there is need to prevent them through vaccination,” she said.
The officer said that vaccination has reduced and eradicated dangerous diseases like smallpox that were problematic during the ages of ignorance before the populace acquired modern education.
She asked residents to work hard on their farms to enable them grow their own crops like maize, millet and nutritious vegetable like spider flowers and black nightshades; that are herbal in addition to being food.
“Good health, education, wealth and general wellness are interdependent but all of these anchor on good health,” she said.
She said that the main disease like measles and polio are now conquerable but mentioned malaria as one of the last enemies to be defeated in the region through consolidated efforts.
She asked the populace especially expectant mothers and children to sleep under mosquito nets to avoid being bitten by mosquitos.
Saying that prevention is cure, she advised the residents to embrace hygiene habits like draining, discarding empty containers and burning rubbish to discourage mosquitoes from inhabiting them.
“If we continue vaccinating now and vaccinating completely, parents in the future may be able to trust that some diseases of today will no longer be around to kill their children,” she said.
She asked school heads to assist parents to ascertain that their children got immunization injections as schools reopen next week.
Answering questions from the public about missing drugs in Nyamira Teaching and Referral Hospital, the officer asked them to visit other health facilities like Manga, Ekerenyo and Tombe to get treated because the health services in the county are decentralized.
By Enock Okomg’o
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