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16/11/2011 - Three Arrested for Resisting Vaccination offered Children. By Dominic Anyanga
Three people have been arrested in Border II sub location, Awasi location in Nyando district for infringing children's right to medication. These children below the age of five were denied a chance to get immunized against polio.

Public health officers and community health workers have been carrying out exercises to determine whether children were getting immunized. On their third and last day of the exercise, the workers faced resistance from some villages, prompting the workers to seek the intervention of Nyando DC Isaiah Tanui. The administrative police officers with instruction from the DC, arrested the three who together with a couple and a single mother claimed that their church doctrines did not allow them to use any form of modern medicine, they believe that only prayer would protect or give back life.

Juliet Achien'g a single mother of three, two boys and a girl all below five years alongside Beatrice and Benson Odhiambo have now been remanded at Ahero police station awaiting court appearance tomorrow to face charges of infringing children's right to health and medical care contrary to section 7(1) and as read with section 20 of the children's act number 8 of 2010.

Nyando district medical officer of health Dr. Rosemary Obara who spearheaded the operation called on the community and church leaders to help demystify some religious myths fueling child mortality rates in luo nyanza, she said the victims will serve as example to other resisting villages.

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