World Health Organisation, ministry allay fears over polio vaccine

The principal secretary for health Dr. Khadijah Kassachon (L) and Nakuru governor Kinuthia Mbugua arrive for the county chiefs of health workshop at Great Rift Valley Lodge in Naivasha. The PS expressed the government concern over the loss of doctors from public hospitals to private ones. [PHOTO/Antony Gitonga/STANDARD]

The Ministry of Health and World Health Organisation (WHO) have dismissed allegations by a section of religious leaders that the oral polio vaccination is not safe.

In a speech read on her behalf, Dr Custodia Mandlhate, the WHO country representative in Kenya, said all vaccines used in the country for routine or mass immunisation are WHO pre-qualified, safe and effective.