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The Kwara State authorities said it volition commence an integrated polio and measles-rubella vaccination run from October 11 to 20, targeting children and young radical aged 9 months to 14 years crossed the 16 section authorities areas.
To warrant creaseless operations, the authorities is engaging information agencies to safeguard wellness workers, particularly successful areas facing insecurity.
Speaking during a Media Dialogue connected integrated measles-rubella vaccine instauration and polio campaign, the enforcement caput of the State Primary Health Care Development Agency( KWPHCDA), Prof. Nusirat Elelu said that nary assemblage would beryllium near retired successful the exercise.
” We are committed to mobilising subject personnel, wellness officers, and logistics to areas witnessing insecurity. We request to support the wellness of the people, too. It would beryllium a treble calamity for them to look information challenges and besides beryllium denied immunisation,” she said.
Elelu explained that discussions had already begun with the National Primary Health Care Development Agency(NPHCDA) and the subject to devise strategies for delivering vaccines successful high-risk areas.
She noted that the run aligns with planetary targets for measles-rubella elimination by 2030, portion besides emphasising the captious relation of the media successful nationalist sensitisation.
Represented by the manager of Primary Healthcare System, Dr Michael Oguntoye, Elelu described the media arsenic a captious instrumentality to amended citizens, antagonistic misinformation, and trim vaccine hesitancy.
Ahead of the authoritative flag-off, she said the bureau had engaged accepted and spiritual leaders to mobilise their communities.
In his keynote address, UNICEF’s Social Behaviour specialist, Mr Ibrahim Mohammed, urged Nigeria to intensify efforts to extremity polio transmission by 2025 portion embracing the Measles-Rubella (MR) vaccine.
He emphasised Nigeria’s accomplishment of being declared escaped of chaotic poliovirus successful 2020 but cautioned that challenges remain, arsenic the state inactive has 1 of the highest numbers of “zero-dose” children—those who person ne'er received immoderate vaccine.
He described the instauration of the MR vaccine, disposable escaped of complaint to children aged 9 months to 14 years, arsenic a historical measurement successful protecting aboriginal generations from preventable diseases.
The authorities immunisation officer, Hajia Sarat Yunus, explained that measles remains a highly infectious viral illness that tin origin terrible complications specified arsenic pneumonia, encephalitis, and death, particularly among children and immunocompromised individuals.
UNICEF’s Dr Usman Danlami and WHO’s Emmanuel Eyitayo some underscored the relation of the media successful ensuring nationalist awareness, urging journalists to antagonistic vaccine myths and misinformation with facts.
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