Polio Immunization: Parents, Traditional Rulers, Stakeholders Urge To Support The Exercise

Polio Immunization: Parents, Traditional Rulers, Stakeholders Urge To Support The Exercise
By Ummaya Njidda Abubakar
The Executive chairman Adamawa state Primary Development Agency Doctor Suleiman Saidu Bashir has stressed the need and importance of parents, traditional rulers and all stakeholders to give maximum support and cooperation in the upcoming polio immunization exercise schedule to carry out in all the two hundred and twenty-six political wards of Adamawa state.
Doctor Bashir stated this during a round table meeting with journalists held at Adamawa State Primary Health Care Development Agency Yola.
He explained that the Polio vaccine is free, safe and effective.
The chairman called on parents and guidance to consider the health benefits of the vaccine and ensure that their children get the vaccine.
Doctor Suleiman noted to ensure successful conduct of the exercise, of the forthcoming polio immunization exercise have been put in place and urged all stakeholder support the programme.
The Executive chairman revealed that the United Nations Children Education Fund UNICEF have already supplied one million four hundred to thousand and forty-three doses of Polio vaccine meant for children from zero to five years old.
In his remarks, the Health officer UNICEF Bauchi Field office Oluseyi Olosunde explained that the federal government with the leadership of National Primary Health Care Development Agency and federal Ministry of Health has directed all the states of the Federation to embark on Nationwide Polio campaign to ensure that all the targeted age group children have been carrying along.
He revealed that in twenty twenty Nigeria was declared as polio free, adding that Adamawa state was also a polio free state, but emphasizes that this doesn’t mean precautionary measures in sustaining the reach wouldn’t be taken.
The UNICEF Health Officer, commend ed the efforts of Adamawa State government in providing counterpart funding by complementing the support of UNICEF in areas of provision of vaccine doses, cold stores in local governments as well as technical support.