With 97% coverage, Cameroon is poised to win the battle for the eradication of polio, an action which, with the support of the development partners such as the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), mobilized financial means whose management is however not always healthy and sometimes causes tensions.
In epidemic since October 2013, Central African countries also affected by an outbreak of cholera and endemic malaria has set the goal to eradicate Wild polio virus before the end of this year after four years of disappearance.
Since May, Cameroon has been classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an exporter of this disease in the same way as the Syria and Pakistan.
"Some officials, for the sake of making undue cuts in the money made available to them, chose to reduce vaccination teams or the number of days of activities." These cases of embezzlement unfortunately have a negative impact on the quality of the work. There is a case well known in the South", reported Xinhua an independent investigator.
The vaccinators are workers recruited on a voluntary basis, in support of the work conducted by the expanded Programme on immunization (EPI). They are placed under the supervision of mobilizers from the people and form a group of social animators commonly referred to as community intermediaries.
some unscrupulous health officials found ways to make abusive use of these resources, according to concordant sources. Yet, in a media briefing held in Yaoundé the eve of the 9th National vaccination campaign, Dr. Désiré Nolna, permanent Secretary of the ENP, dismissed the possibility of such practices.
More than 5.5 million children of less than 5 years from the population target of these operations were vaccinated. The northern region are approximately 637.858 children, distributed in 15 health districts that vaccination teams travel to most of them painfully, because of the poor roads.
For the past vaccination campaign, social mobilization were in Garoua, the main town of the region, with the participation of traditional authorities and the religious (imams, priests or pastors) in the sensitization of the population.
