Yobe SPHCB, UNICEF Engage Media Practitioners On Integrated Measles Rubella, Polio, Others Campaign

The Yobe State Primary Healthcare Board, with the enactment from UNICEF has successfully engaged media practitioners up of the integrated measles rubella, polio, malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases, NTDs and Human Papillomavirus (HPV) run scheduled for Oct. 18 to Oct. 23 crossed the state.

The engagement which has participants from crossed assorted media including nationalist and private, held astatine the Medical and Health Workers Union Conference Hall successful Damaturu

The Executive Secretary Yobe State Primary Healthcare Board Dr. Babagana Kundi Machina represented by the wellness Promotion Officer, Mohammed Kado, urged media practitioners to assistance sensitize the nationalist astir the run and its value with a presumption to achieving the desired goals.

Dr Kundi who expressed happiness with the efforts of the journalists successful disseminating the agency’s activities stressed the request for much collaboration for the payment of the radical of the state.

The Chairman of the State Social Mobilization and Community Engagement Working Group (SM&CEWG), Alh. Ali Musa Yawale, welcomed the participants and urged them to wage adjacent attraction to the presentations for amended knowing and reporting.

Mr Barka Darpi, UNICEF Social and Behavioural Change Officer, said the instauration of the measles-rubella vaccine was portion of efforts to adjacent immunity gaps and trim the load of preventable puerility diseases.

According to him, Nigeria accounts for 54 per cent of Africa’s polio load and ranks 2nd successful measles incidence aft the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Darpi said the integrated run would support a ample cohort of children, interrupt transmission of measles, rubella and polio, fortify regular immunisation, and trim inequities successful vaccine coverage.

Mr Benjamin Abata, the State Coordinator for Neglected Tropical Diseases Control Programme, said the integrated attack would guarantee ratio and trim accent connected some wellness workers and communities.

“Behavioural change, proviso of household toilets, and h2o proviso successful schools and markets are captious to reducing the dispersed of these diseases,” Abata said.