Health Department ramps up measles vaccination drive
The Department of Health has intensified its national measles vaccination campaign across primary schools and creches.
It says the number of laboratory confirmed cases among children between the ages of 6 months and 12 years has been rising weekly.
Experts at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) say there've been 506 confirmed measles in the country since October.
The department's Foster Mohale says 484 cases have been reported in outbreak provinces.
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"All the five districts in the province of Limpopo experienced the outbreak of measles. The City of Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni and some parts of Mpumalanga, Free State and the North West.
Mohale is urging parents to meet them halfway.
"We appeal to parents and caregivers and legal guardians to ensure they find the consent forms that are issued to learners in schools in order to give permission to our school health teams in order to immunize them.
"Because you just don't go to school and immunize any child without the consent or permission of the parent or caregivers."
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