The Ministry of Public Health (MINSANTE) and its partners have this Thursday 23rd April 2015 organised a workshop to sensitise urban transporters in Yaounde and Douala towards the promotion of routine vaccinations and the fight against polio.
The outcome of the meeting in Yaounde was the signing of a convention between the Ministry of Public of Health and the Urban Transporters Trade Union.
According to this convention, urban transporters will contribute in promoting vaccination campaigns.
The MINSANTE Director of Family Health, Prof Mbu Robinson explained that the urban transporters have been targeted because they get in contact with mothers on a daily basis. They therefore have an upper hand in informing passengers on the existing vaccination campaigns and time frames.
One Urban Transporters Trade Union President, Jean Collins Ndefossokeng indicated that they as urban transporters will promote vaccination campaigns by pasting vaccination timetable stickers in their taxis.
Such stickers are part of the sensitisation tools given to them by the Ministry of Public Health and its partners so that passengers will be informed on when and where to get their children vaccinated.
Topics discussed during the roundtable ranged from the definition of vaccination to its importance and ways of promoting it.
The reinforcement workshop brought together officials of the Ministries of Public Health and Transport, World Health Organisation, Female Mayors of Yaounde, Presidents of ten Urban Transport Trade Unions and representatives of the Association of “Buyam-Sellams”.
