Uganda, April 3 -- Some schools in Wakiso District have blocked health workers from vaccinating learners against Yellow Fever during the ongoing one-week exercise that kicked off Tuesday.

Mr Emmanuel Damba, the Wakiso District senior environmental health officer, said some school administrators claim they have to first get consent from parents before allowing district medical teams to vaccinate children under their care.

"It is unfortunate that Day One [of Mass Yellow Fever vaccination] was not so smooth as expected because in some schools particularly those that are private, we found some challenges of not allowing our teams to start the exercise," he said in an interview on Wednesday.

He added some school proprietors and head teacher...