One person has died from an outbreak of meningitis in Amuru, the District Health Officer Dr Patrick Olwedo said on Tuesday.
Meningitis is an acute inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.
The 11 years old boy died on December 26 at St Mary’s Lacor hospital in Gulu where he had been admitted for treatment.
One patient suspected to be suffering from the disease has been quarantined at Olwal HCIII in Lamogi Sub County.
Dr Olwedo said Amuru last year received a total consignment of 150,000 dosses from the ministry of health for the mass vaccination against meningitis.
“We are targeting to vaccinate at least 136,500 people ranging from age of 1-29 effective 19th January,” Dr Olwedo told Acholi Times.
Mr Michael Lakony the LCV chairman of Amuru asked the community to utilize the opportunity and get vaccinated against meningitis.
“Let’s take this exercise seriously and make the first person we lost to meningitis in December to be the last.’’
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Check what is in the vaccination… We are so fed up with scare monger to think that vaccination is the solution without realizing that it is also a mechanism to inject diseases into people who do not know science. Gwero kom dano lumuku kong ki kwany bwut yadine mogo ki ci pimo ne la ling me kenyo ngo ma tye i yat. Two Lucluc kono obino ningning? America guwaco ni gi tuco dano alip abongen kenyo ci i ngeye two ca okatti.
Buru dano ni two moni dwong kun pud oneko dano acel keken ma bene nen calo gicwallo i ot yat late ni Pe ber. Luj luj obino inge gwere lumuku i camp, herpatitis E ki keto i pii, mon mogo gumwonyo yat i kare yacu oweko gunywalo lotino ma it gi ki te leb gi otoo. Cancer bene ki keto I kom mon Acholi, cancer ma gi yubu ayubu ki i laboratory. Munu pe miyo gin mo nono. Lok me jami me nono oweko Acholi tye ki two mogo ma pe i but piny mukene. I lobo pa munu big pharma tye ka mino dactari cente madwong wek gumi yat atema i kom dano. Pi man pe ageno ladakta mo keken ma cuku dano me gwero dano lumuku.
Amuru Amuru Amuru ka pe ogwoke ci gini tyeko wu woko pi lok pa ngom. Pingo yat onongo dong ki kelo tye me gwero dano wa imwaka mukatoni matwo Otel tok onongo pud peke ni? Anga ma ngeyo ni latoo ni otoo ki oteltok onyo kono cerebral malaria? Lok me cato kwoo pa dano pi cente oromo piny woko ACHOLI OGWOOOOKE.
How much inflicted viruses and bacteria can a child under five years take in the name of VACCINES? In the northern part of Uganda, a pregnant women will be bombarded with pills and vaccines during their pregnancy. Immediately the child is born day one, the child will get vaccinated, a month after another vaccine six months later another vaccine, and when the child is one year old, there comes meningitis vaccination and after these vaccines there are pre school boosters before they are 5yrs old is this really normal?
Acholi people had never have such a high number of disabilities in their community such as retardation, stunting growth, deaf and mute, nodding and starry diseases, dumbness and birth defects. Besides that there are various new diseases in the community and in the surrounding environment. Why oh why are we a threat to the world? Talking of dumbness, we are still accepting jami me nono dok bene kine mukene wa penyo pire apenya man too piny ku? Acholi yam owaco ni wanya ki poko weko i camo awaala, pe i gam onyo icam jami pa ngat ma in pe ingeyo. Ci pingo pe wawinyo lok?
Tam pa lurok tye ma rach ikom wa pi lonyo ngom ki moo. Tyeko dano imony pa Kony oloyo gi. Teach us simple hygiene and prevention. America ki Ulaya can odiyo gi oweko gin mito dwogo mulu mulu kaloc ki kwalo kwo ikin ocol. White man medicine for whiteman diseases (joni ludibi yaa weko two gi dwong). Cam moch cam kwaro!!
Muni lodobo yaa weko twoo gi dwong