BAIDOA– International Organization for Migration ( IOM) has on Tuesday embarked on vaccination exercise aimed at preempting the spread of infections disease in Baidoa town, the interim administrative capital of South West State.

The UN immigration Agency said they are targeting people living in Internally Displaced Camps ( IDP) particularly in Barwaqo camp

Among those who benefited from the inoculation are vulnerable children and women living in the displacement.

The exercise was supported and facilitated by United States Agency for International Development ( USAID) and its bureau for humanitarian assistance.

To prevent life-threatening infectious diseases and to safe-guard the health of children.

IOM is vaccinating children in Barwaqo displacement site, in Baidoa, Southwest State.

Thanks to @USAIDSomalia for support. @USAIDSavesLives pic.twitter.com/oOtIaxJNzN

— IOM Somalia (@IOM_Somalia) June 14, 2023

South West State is among the regions hardly hit by the natural calamities like drought and climate change which has compelled thousands of people to dwell in camps following the decimation if their sources of livelihood.

IOM has in recent months beefed up community services in the Horn of Africa Nation where they have particularly successfully rolled out vaccination of people against virulent viruses and also equipping youth with necessary skills like tailoring in the towns of Baidoa and Kismayo.