The Borno State government is targeting one million children for vaccination during this year’s immunization exercise.
The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Haruna Mshelia, said this during the flag-off the 2015 National Measles Campaign in Maiduguri at the weekend.
He said the state Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Primary Health Care Development Agency and other health development partners would carry out the exercise in 15 local government areas of the state.
Dr. Mshelia said 13 general hospitals had been renovated and equipped across the three senatorial districts of the state, in addition to free maternal care and distribution of 2.1 million mosquitoes nets. Flagging off the programme, wife of Borno State governor, Hajiya Nana Shettima, said measles is a dangerous disease and urged parents, guardians and caregivers to ensure that their children between nine months and five years are vaccinated.
She called on wives of local government chairmen, commissioners, state Assembly members and other major stakeholders to set the pace by leading the campaign.
The UNICEF representative in Borno State, Dr Frank Ndaie, said the exercise which will take place in 15 local governments, is to serve as a catch-up campaign aimed covering more than 90 percent of the targeted children. He said the campaign offers a second opportunity to those who are yet to be immunised.
By: Ibrahim Sawab,
Daily Trust News
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