The Kwara Government says over one million children across the 16 Local Government Area of the state will be vaccinated under the Polio Vaccination Campaign.
Dr Nusirat Elelu, the Executive Secretary of the Kwara State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, stated this on Tuesday in Ilorin during the implementation of a three-day Local Immunisation Days (LID).
According to Elelu, under the LID, 300,000 children will be vaccinated, while the Polio Vaccination Campaign is also targeting over one million children under two years of age.
“The Polio Vaccination Campaign, which will commence from Oct. 26 to Oct. 29, is a round of Out Break Response to circulating Mutant Variant of Polio.
“This campaign is meant to prevent childhood paralysis due to polio virus. All children 0-5 years are expected to be vaccinated irrespective of their previous vaccination status.
“The vaccine is safe, efficacious and does not have an overdose.
“Immunisation provides protection against life-threatening vaccine preventable diseases such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, diarrhea, influenza, meningitis, and cancers and can reduce most post-neonatal under-five mortality,” she said.
The executive secretary also explained that the three day routine LID immunisation, which commenced on Monday and would end on Wednesday, would protect children under two years in the state.
“The exercise is taking place across all the apex Primary Health Care facilities and outreach posts in the 193 wards of Kwara.
“All parents, care givers, religious houses, schools, quranic institutions should make eligible children available for vaccination as the teams moves from houses to markets, religious houses and schools,” she said. (NAN).
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