Mr Frank Amankona, Disease Supervisor of the Berekum Municipal Health Directorate, on Monday said, 500 children, made up of 350 females and 150 males were immunized against measles at the Christ Apostolic Centre in Berekum.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Berekum, Mr Amankona said the vaccinators and volunteers were dispatched to various areas of the municipality to undertake the exercise and no death or sickness was recorded during the exercise.
The disease supervisor allayed the fears of some of the people that the measles vaccine would rather kill their children, saying a drug and injection for the cure of measles were available at both the regional and Berekum municipal health directorates.
He urged people with feverish conditions, skin rash, running nose and cough to report to the nearest health facility for investigation since they could be symptoms of the diseases.
The municipal disease supervisor stated that the disease is caused by a small germ called the measles virus and it is spread from person to person, when droplets containing the measles virus, is discharged from a patient's mouth or nose through coughing and sneezing and inhaled by another person.
Mr Amankona added that a child could develop serious complications from the disease when not properly treated, adding that, the complications could be diarrhoea, brain damage, pneumonia, eye and ear infections and sore mouth.
Some people the GNA spoke to in the municipality, praised the exercise.
Madam Grace Addo, a trader at the Berekum Central Market said, lauded the exercise, saying that, it would help in the fight against diseases, whilst Madam Faustina Owusuaa, a teacher at the All for Christ International School in Berekum, commended the government for undertaking the exercise across the country.