DOH targets .5-M WVisayas kids for immunization

ILOILO CITY: The Department of Health regional office here is targeting more than 500,000 children 0 to 5 years old to avail of the oral polio vaccine (OPV) catch-up immunization set on February 22 – 26.

The switch from trivalent OPV to bivalent OPV is slated on April 27, 2016 as the nation joins the worldwide catch-up immunization to protect the population from the consequences of importation of wild poliovirus.