Kwara state government says it has concluded plans to vaccinate about 601,865 children against measles at designated primary healthcare centres in the 16 local government areas of the state.
Speaking at the flag off of the integrated measles and polio vaccination campaign by wife of the state governor, Ambassador Olufolake Abdulrazaq, in Shao town , the executive secretary of the state primary health care development agency, Dr. Nusrat Elelu, said that 1,074,126 children under-5 years will also be vaccinated against polio.
According to her measles and poliomyelitis are among the top 10 killer and debilitating diseases in Africa.
Dr. Elelu said that the polio vaccination exercise will be carried out by utilising the house to house campaign and administration of two drops of oral polio vaccine as well as Vitamin A oral supplementation.
She advised eligible person to take the Covid vaccine which is safe and efficacious against the disease.
In her address ,wife of the governor of Kwara state, Ambassador Olufolake Abdulrazaq said that
Polio is a paralytic disease that has crippled many children and even killed some across the globe.
She, noted that through concerted effort the last case of the Wild Polio Virus so far in Nigeria was 2016, adding that Nigeria was subsequently declared Polio free.
COV/ALI MUHAMMAD RABIU