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Over 2.8 million children have been targeted for the second round of polio outbreak response immunisation by the Kaduna State Primary Health Care Development Agency.
This was made known by the agency’s Deputy Director, Hamza Ibrahim-Hamza, during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Kaduna.
He revealed that the vaccination would run from April 20 to April 23 in 23 local government areas in the state.
Ibrahim-Hamza said the state hopes to achieve 85 per cent compliance in the exercise, adding “We are commencing the exercise on Saturday and hope to achieve total compliance by the parents and caregivers.
” We want to ensure that children from age 0-five years are fully immunised.”
Ibrahim-Hamza said that the agency had sought the involvement of traditional and religious leaders to track children that are under one year old.
He said at least two health workers would be sent to each of the hard-to-reach areas for proper coverage.
Ibrahim-Hamza appealed to parents, guardians and caregivers to ensure they make their children available for immunisation during the campaign and for routine immunisation in any nearby health centre or hospital.
He added, “The vaccination will include house-to-house and in hospitals, and we will supervise 1,168 health facilities so that all the communities will benefit, especially children less than one year.”
(NAN)
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