The Zambezi Region has vaccinated over 27,000 children under the age of ten during the third round of polio vaccination, started earlier here to reach children affected by floods and relocations.

Nurse Nosiku Mundia at Katima Mulilo Hospital said:
“We capitalized on school going children as we know the targeted age is ten years and below as we know most of these kids are found in school, so the schools the strategies of reaching the schools was the one that was working so much but despite that our teams are out, they are going door to door in each and every compound of Zambezi region we have dispatched all the teams that are going out there.”

Ministry Public Relations Officer Walters Kamaya stated:
“Some of the challenges we are facing, the biggest in Zambezi region is accessibility of some other places and the other issue also you know schools have closed and then we are looking for kids into the community, however this morning is the last day for the learners, they're collecting their reports and then this morning one of our strategies to see to it that for the next two hours we want to catch up to them.”

Nurse Boleka Sikanda added that challenges include finding children without guardians and resistance to vaccination. The campaign will conclude on 30 April.