AH1N1 vaccination campaign ends

Principal Health Officer at the Ministry of Health, Bakanoki Nfila, informs Mmegi that the campaign, which ended yesterday, exhausted all the vaccines they had.  "Vaccines are not likely to remain at all since they are in demand," she said. The Ministry had 1,6 million vials, but now has only 1,000 vials left.  However, the ministry is still waiting for different districts to compile and report on the figures of people who received the vaccine.

Early this year, the government secured about 100 percent provision of the vaccine from World Health Organisation (WHO) while other countries had to purchase most of the vaccine.  So, the government encouraged people to get the vaccine to protect themselves from the AH1N1 influenza 2009 virus for at least a year.