Over 1 Million Kwara Children to Receive Polio Vaccine in Statewide Campaign

Date: 2024-10-23

The Kwara State government has announced plans to vaccinate over one million children across the state's 16 local government areas as part of its polio vaccination campaign. Nusirat Elelu, the Executive Secretary of the Kwara State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, made this known on Tuesday during the launch of a three-day Local Immunisation Day (LID) event in Ilorin.

Ms Elelu stated that 300,000 children are set to be vaccinated during the LID, with the broader polio vaccination campaign aiming to reach over one million children under the age of two.

“The polio vaccination campaign, which will commence from October 26 to October 29, is a round of outbreak responses to circulating mutant variants of polio.

“This campaign is meant to prevent childhood paralysis due to the polio virus. All children 0–5 years old are expected to be vaccinated irrespective of their previous vaccination status.

“The vaccine is safe, efficacious and does not have an overdose.

“Immunisation provides protection against life-threatening vaccine-preventable diseases such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, diarrhoea, influenza, meningitis, and cancers and can reduce most post-neonatal under-five mortality,” she said.

The executive secretary also explained that the three-day routine LID immunisation, which commenced on Monday and would end on Wednesday, would protect children under two years.

She noted that the immunisation would take place across all healthcare facilities and outreach posts.

“All parents, caregivers, religious houses, schools, and Quranic institutions should make eligible children available for vaccination as the team moves from houses to markets, religious houses and schools,” she said.

(NAN)

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Yunus Lawal     Harmony Holdings     Alao Ayotunde     Abdulhakeem Amao     Seed Technologies     Lukman Adeloyin     Gbemisola Saraki     HICA     Abdulraheem Yusuf     Sheikh Alimi     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Senate     Basic Education Certificate Examination     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     ER-KANG Mining     ITP     Alaro     Lotus Bank     Bisi Oyeleke     Ronke Adeyemi     Amasa     Alapado     Muritala Awodun     Ahmad Ali     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa     Sidikat Akaje     Sabi     Halimat Yusuf     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Amusement Park     Lateef Fagbemi     Siraj Oyewale     CACOVID Palliatives     Akeem Olatunji     Smart School     TIIDELab     Florence Saraki     Olayinka Oladapo Jogunola     Amina El-Imam     Mary Arinde     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Razaq Ayobami Akanbi     Monsurat Omotosho     Abdulwahab Ololele     Moshood Bakare     Mahmud Ayinla Giwa     Fatai Garuba Labaka     Ilesha-Gwanara     Albert Ogunsola     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     LABTOP     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     Wasiu Odewale     Ojuekun Sarumi     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Tunde Kazeem     Umar Adelodun     Adama Isa     Kupchi Hosea Maxwell     Folorunsho Alao     Gbugbu International Market     Abdulfatai Salman Baakini     Mohammed Yisa     Hakeem Idris     Kwara State Internal Revenue Service     Okanlawon Musa     Kamaldeen Kehinde     Ayodele Kuburat Olaosebikan     Tinubu Legacy Forum     Hussein Oloyede     New Nigeria People’s Party     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Razaq Atunwa     Bello John Olanrewaju     Harrison Osauwagboe    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Olaiya Zuberu     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     Iyabo Dupe Adekeye     Bature Bello     JMK Construction Company Limited     Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf     KSIRS     Basic Education Certificate Examination     Read With Me     ITEM 7     Umar Ahmed Gunu     Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen     REO CAKES     Hassan Oyeleke     NYSC     Kwara State Government     ENetSuD     Toyin Sanusi     International Aviation College     Fola Consultant     Joseph Daudu     Babatunde Ajeigbe     Garuba Alikinla Shittu     Onilorin Of Ilorin     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     Okiki     Ganmo     Mohammed Danjuma     Muhammad Sirajo Aliyu     Nigeria Computer Society     Tope Daramola     Chikanda     Mustapha AbdulGaniyu     Yaru     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     Yahaya Oloriegbe     Yemi Osinbajo     Abdulganiyu Salahudeen     Femi Ogunsola     Oloye     Ibrahim Jawondo     Oyelere Oyinloye     Magaji Nda     Falokun-Oja     Bello Oyedepo     Abdulhakeem Amao     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Oluwatoyin Lukman     Amusa Bello     Amosa     Mashood Dauda     Aminat Omodara     Government High School Adeta     Abdulrazaq Aiyelabegan     HAMFAT Clinic And Maternity     Alao Ayotunde     KWASSIP     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Musa Yeketi     Bukola Ajikobi     Anilelerin     Omotoso Musa     General Hospital     Abatemi-Usman     Kwarareports     Balogin Alanamu     Abubakar Atiku     Mary Kemi Adeosun     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Bamidele Adegoke     Rafiu Olasile     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Raliat AbdulRazaq     Lanre Aremu     Oloje