The Cross border trade between Angola and Zambia is posing an eminent threat of the outbreak of polio in Kabompo district.
Kabompo District Medical Officer, Stephen Shajanika made the observation during a district planning meeting held in the districtcouncil chamber yesterday.
Dr Shajanika said the cross border trade between people along theZambia-Angola border in chief Chiyengele and senior chief Sikufele areas posed a challenge and a threat at the same time because children across the border in Angola were not immunized.
He said there was need to set up a community radio station for information dissemination because most people who settled in the district were scattered making outreach activities difficulty.
Dr Shajanika said the district was planning to zone communities and set up immunization registers in villages in order to monitor children coming from the neigbouring country so that they could be vaccinated too.
The meeting was attended by senior chief Sikufele, chief Chiyengele and acting chief Kalunga, district heads of government departments and health personnel.
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