ADDIS ABABA (Halbeeg News) – District level officials from Ethiopia and Somalia’s Puntland and Somaliland have attended second synchronized Horn of Africa cross-border polio coordination and micro-planning meeting.
According to a statement by whom on Friday, the meeting was held from 16-18, July 2019 in Jigjiga city of Somali region in Ethiopia.
This second synchronized cross-border meeting was attended by the Ministry of Health National, Regional, zonal and woreda level officers, CORE Group, CDC, Rotary, WHO and UNICEF.
The overall objectives of this meeting were to review the 1st round implementation of synchronized cross-border activities between Somalia and Ethiopia and to identify the gaps and challenges.
The sides discussed and developed the way forward to address the challenges and reviewed the preparedness activities of the cross border for the upcoming extended campaign of monovalent oral polio vaccine type2 (mOPV2) and to further update the cross border micro plans for both sides of the borders to ensure all children would be reached.
The Somali Regional Health Bureau (RHB) Head, Dr. Yusuf Mohammed Ali in his welcoming remark said that the RHB looks forward to continuing working closely with the multitude of partners in Ethiopia and abroad, to make sure that every child is vaccinated to protect our children from Polio and other Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (VPD).
Dr Anand Saumya from UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO) underlined the importance of the joint planning meeting and the synchronized campaign for a better outcome.
The first synchronized cross border micro-planning meeting was held in Hargeisa Somaliland from 12 to 13 June 2019 with great success where the lower level staffs were fully involved and engaged in the process of cross-border micro plan.
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