Doctors in Kaduna state under the aegis of Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) have described as a national disaster, the declining immunization coverage in Nigeria, saying, there is urgent need for more direct community engagement on issues of routine immunization to improve community participation and ownership.
Addressing newsmen yesterday in Kaduna on the occasion of 2017 annual Physicians’ Week, the chairman of NMA, Dr. Shehu Abdulrahman stated that the 2016/2017 National Immunization Coverage Survey (NICS) indicated that only 33percent of children aged 12-23 months had three doses of pentavalent vaccine against the global target of 90 percent, only 23 percent were fully immunized while 40 percent did not receive any vaccine from the health system. The implication of this finding, according to him, is that a large population of children particularly under-five years of age is unprotected and at the risk of dying from vaccine preventable diseases such as measles, diphtheria, pertusis, tetanus and hepatitis B among others.
By: Christiana T. Alabi, Kaduna
Daily Trust News
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