Lagos Intensifies Immunisation Campaign

Lagos State authorities has intensified its immunisation run successful a renewed effort to amended vaccine sum nationwide.

In collaboration with section authorities chairmen, spiritual leaders and different cardinal stakeholders, the authorities is pushing to guarantee that each residents, peculiarly children are afloat immunised against preventable diseases.
At the inauguration of the Lagos State Task Force connected Immunisation and Primary Health Care Services, held connected Tuesday successful Alausa, Ikeja, Deputy Governor Dr Obafemi Hamzat, who besides chairs the task force, emphasised the request for corporate action.

Dr Hamzat lauded the advancement made by the state’s immunisation squad successful caller years but stressed that much indispensable beryllium done to scope those who stay unvaccinated.

He urged spiritual leaders to usage their platforms to amended the nationalist connected the value of vaccines, and called connected schools to guarantee that students are decently immunised.

“We privation our spiritual leaders to usage their sermons to pass radical astir the potency of vaccines. We arsenic privation our schools to beryllium alert of their roles successful ensuring students are duly vaccinated,” Hamzat said.

He reaffirmed the authorities government’s committedness to strengthening superior wellness attraction and announced plans to summation budgetary allocations for the assemblage to guarantee amended work delivery.

Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, highlighted the value of grassroots sensitisation and robust superior healthcare systems. He warned that communities with anemic healthcare platforms are susceptible to illness outbreaks and semipermanent wellness challenges.

“Our superior nonsubjective is to summation immunisation coverage. The satellite present has precise effectual vaccines that tin forestall diseases specified arsenic hepatitis, cervical crab caused by HPV, malaria, and more,” Abayomi said.

He added that improving vaccine uptake successful Lagos requires amended infrastructure, aesculapian equipment, and skilled wellness personnel. “To amended the uptake, the services indispensable improve,” helium said.

The imperishable caput of the Lagos State Primary Health Care Board, Dr Ibrahim Mustapha, reiterated the state’s committedness to ensuring nary 1 is near behind. He said the task unit volition fortify governance, amended regular immunisation crossed each LGAs, and foster collaboration betwixt the nationalist and backstage sectors.

“We privation to beryllium proactive successful responding to outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases and align our PHC work transportation to guarantee optimal performance,” Mustapha noted.

On behalf of section assembly chairmen, Chairman of Conference 57 and Ibeju-Lekki Local Government, Hon. Sesan Olowa, assured the Deputy Governor and the task unit of their afloat enactment for the initiative.

“We are committed to supporting the immunisation run and ensuring that it reaches each assemblage successful our section authorities areas,” Olowa said.