BAGUIO CITY, March 26 – City Health officer Dr. Florence Reyes enjoins the public to support the free Measles-Rubella Supplemental Immunization Activity on April 4 - May 4.

In a radio interview, Dr. Reyes announced that the City Health Office (CHO) has formed 20 vaccination teams composed of medical officers, nurses, midwives, nutrition workers, volunteer health workers, and volunteer nurses.


Each team is composed of not less than five health personnel with the medical officer as the team leader.
Unlike in other areas, the city will conduct a saturation drive per health districts, so starting April 4, all the 20 vaccination teams will converge in one health district. The city has a total of 16 health districts and each health districts has assigned barangays, “This is a door-to-door campiagn and we’ll see to it that no eligible child will be left behind,” Reyes said.

She likewise urged mothers, fathers, and caregivers to open their doors to the vaccination teams and avail of this free vaccination, it will be conducted from Monday to Friday, starting April 4 to May 4, 2011.

She announced that all children aged nine months old up to sevebn years and 11 months old or those born from May 2003 up to July 2010 are illegible for vaccination.

According to Reyes, the number of confirmed measles cases has significantly increased, 19 in 2004 to 49 in 2010.

There will be a simultaneous launching nationwide on April 4 in the city; we will be launching it at the Baguio City Hall during the flag raising ceremony, Reyes concluded.*(PIA-CAR)