Vice President Lucia Witbooi is on an official visit to the Omaheke Region, where she is engaging marginalised communities.

The Vice President's tour started at Epako Clinic in Gobabis.

Here she administered the first polio drops, launching the first round of the nationwide polio vaccination campaign in the region.

Witbooi warned that polio can have lifelong effects and urged those present to spread the message and encourage others to take children under 10 to their nearest clinic for immunisation.

"You brought the child for the immunisation programme? This is a crucial programme from the Ministry of Health, which we must participate in and administer to our children to protect them from polio. Every parent should attend this exercise with their child. It will be back in February. So you need to go out and tell the others about this immunisation programme."

Omaheke Governor Pijoo Nganate echoed a similar sentiment.

"The government is giving this free of charge, as the vice president has said here, so we keep healthy children because this is our future."