UNICEF Calls For More Efforts As Kano Records 90% Reduction In Polio Cases

The main of UNICEF Field Office Kano, Rahama Farah, has urged sustained committedness and enhanced accountability arsenic Kano State approaches what helium described arsenic a decisive December extremity to eradicate polio successful Nigeria.

At the Kano State Immunisation Task Force Committee‘s gathering successful Kano, Farah revealed encouraging epidemiological information showing lone 3 polio cases recorded from 3 section authorities areas (LGAs) successful 2025, compared to 31 cases from 17 LGAs successful 2024 – representing a melodramatic 90 percent reduction.

“This important advancement is simply a nonstop effect of enactment dedication and the spot of our partnership,“ helium said.

However, the UNICEF main emphasised that the advancement should not breed complacency, stressing that the upcoming October immunization campaign‘s prime is „non-negotiable“ for maintaining momentum toward polio eradication.

Farah identified 3 captious requirements for the October campaign‘s occurrence which see timely merchandise of authorities and LGA counterpart funds, strengthening fiscal and operational accountability and deployment of elder authorities supervisors to enactment tract teams.

He besides stressed connected the request to code sum gaps arsenic revealed successful caller information analysis, noting that, portion the E-Tally strategy showed 88% sum of targeted children during the archetypal rhythm of the Integrated Biological Risk Assessment (IBRA), it fell abbreviated of the 95% threshold needed for effectual herd immunity.

„Any sum little than 95% is not capable to physique the immunity partition we need,“ Farah warned, noting discrepancies betwixt E-Tally information and the 97% sum reported connected call-in sheets.

„To enactment the last push, UNICEF has deployed an extended web including 8 authorities facilitators, 44 LGA facilitators, 246 voluntary ward supervisors, and implicit 2,400 colony assemblage mobilizers.

„The enactment has besides provided 400 MP3 Bluetooth speakers with pre-loaded contented for assemblage engagement,“ helium maintained.

While commending the lawman politician Gwarzo for personally flagging disconnected caller campaigns helium urged sustained high-level governmental committedness for the October round. Farah said, „We person the strategy, resources, and grounds that our enactment is paying off. Now we request precision, accountability, and unwavering commitment.“