First Lady Margaret Kenyatta gives polio vaccine to six-week-old Keisha. [Photo/ The Star]Kenya will continue with routine polio immunization and mop-up campaigns despite that there has not been single case of polio reported since 2013.The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that it will support this exercise, because there are still two endemic countries in the world, Afghanistan and Pakistan."To sustain polio-free status, the country surveillance teams, with support from WHO and partners, have continued to monitor the health of children under routine immunisation in order to avoid any undetected cases," read a statement by WHO country representative Dr Rudi Eggers on Tuesday as quoted by the Star.The statement was released to coincide with Tuesday's World Polio Day.Eggers lauded Kenya for rapid response after 14 cases of imported wild poliovirus type 1 were reported in 2013.He said that Kenya's staffs from the Ministry of Health traversed the country to its 'farthest and most inaccessible areas' with support from WHO and other partners to do supplementary immunisation activities and anti-polio campaigns. "The unsung heroes are the hundreds of teams of committed health workers and community health volunteers who worked for days on end, some under very difficult circumstances even in remote, hot and hard to reach areas," Eggers as further quoted by the Star.According to the Health ministry, over the past four years at least 10 million Kenyan children have received multiple doses of vaccine under the guidance of the country’s Polio Outbreak Preparedness and Response Plan. 

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