world health organisation's goal is to protect "all the world's children''.

The challenge is to change the social norms so that it is unacceptable for any child to be denied the benefits of immunisation.

Before vaccines were discovered, childhood diseases took a terrible toil of life and health, the mentally retarded child who was so bright before suffering brain damage from measles, the baby born blind and deaf because the mother had rubella while she was pregnant, children and adults severely crippled by polio.

In the early 70's it appeared that childhood diseases were under control by safe and effective vaccines, but today, outbreaks of these childhood diseases still occur because all children are not fully protected by readily available vaccines.

Our programme is integrated within the comprehensive health services and delivered as an essential component of maternal and child health care. Our immunisation coverage for the year 1993 was 85 percent. We have to make it 100 percent. We need to reach out and encourage every parent and guardian and inform them that vaccines are readily available to everyone from your doctor, or via the child health clinic free of charge Please call 236-0224 Ext. 314 and we will assist you.

If you are unsure that your child is fit for the next immunisation have him checked by his doctor or child health clinic, most often he will be well enough for his spot.

If your child's immunisation schedule is not fully completed, that he had missed a few shots, please, it is never too late to catch up.

According to the immunisation schedule revised in 1993. Your child should be fully immunised by the time he is 18 months of age.