DAR ES SALAAM, Oct. 21 -- THE Kilimanjaro Regional Commissioner (RC), Ms Anna Mghwira over the weekend called upon members of the public to make sure that their children get measles, rubella and polio vaccines for their own health benefits.

She said that past immunisation exercises for the three ailments have shown big results, hence no cause of alarm.

Ms Mghwira made the remarks at Pasua Health Centre, Moshi Municipality in Kilimanjaro Region, while presiding over its launch in the area with further appeal that: "The Measles and Rubella immunisation campaigns have borne fruits in the past, which includes the reduction of infant mortality rates especially among children aged five years and below in the region.

"For more than five years...