Kwara Set to Vaccinate Over 80,000 Children with Lifesaving Vaccines

Date: 2025-04-12

The Kwara State Government has announced its readiness to vaccinate over 80,000 children as part of the third round of the Big Catch-Up vaccination campaign, aimed at strengthening immunization efforts and closing immunity gaps in children across the state.

The initiative, which runs from Saturday, April 12 to Thursday, April 17, 2025, is a collaborative effort between the Kwara State Government, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), and other health partners.

According to Professor Nusirat Elelu, Executive Secretary of the Kwara State Primary Health Care Development Agency, the campaign will target children who may have missed their scheduled routine immunizations, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic period.

She disclosed this on Thursday while addressing a strategic meeting with staff of the Agency and representatives of development partners in Ilorin.

Prof. Elelu noted that the Big Catch-Up campaign is to strengthen routine immunization and protect children from Vaccine Preventable Diseases, an exercise which will be implemented in three Local Government Areas (LGAs) with high number of unimmunized children in Kwara State, namely: Baruten, Ilorin East and Ifelodun LGAs.

She stressed that immunization is one of the most successful and cost-effective public health interventions, which has been shown to prevent millions of deaths every year and has reduced morbidity among the vulnerable groups.

The Executive Secretary reiterated that this Big Catch-up campaign is the third round in the series, adding that the exercise will take place in health facilities and outreach posts in every settlement of the 3 LGAs.

Prof. Elelu enjoined all parents, caregivers, religious leaders, schools and Islamic institutions to cooperate with the State Government by making all eligible children available for vaccination, stressing that the campaign is targeted at all children aged 0-5 years who might have missed out on any of their previous doses of vaccine.

The Executive Secretary reiterated that the vaccines are safe and efficacious, as such parents should protect their children from unnecessary sufferings from diseases, as the State Government has made interventions available at no cost to prevent diseases among children, saying that the Kwara State Government will continuously do all that is necessary to protect the health of all residents, especially, mothers and children.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Kwara     Edret Sabi Abel     Siddiq Adebayo Idowu Salawu     Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman     Ganmo     Rebecca Bake     Olatunde Michaels     Abdulquowiyu Olododo     Muhammed Mahe Abdulkadir     Eleyele     Emir Of Lafiagi     Neo Mundo Ltd     Amasa     NNPP     Hydro-electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     A.E. Afolabi     Ayinde Oki     UTME     Saka Adeyemo     Orisa Bridge     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Lithium     Guber Aspirant     Iyabo Dupe Adekeye     Vishvas KOZ Tractors     Offa Poly     Unilorin     Jaiz Bank     Mumeen Lah     Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Funke Adedoyin     REO CAKES     Amina Susa\'a De Ahmed     Wakilin Mata Lafiagi     Standard Organization Of Nigeria     Damilola Yusuf Adelodun     Kayode Ogunlowo     Sarah Alade     Code Of Conduct     Rebecca Olanrewaju     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Gbemisola Oguntimehin     Yakub Ali-Agan     Ahmad Uthman     Garba Idris Ajia     Segun Abifarin     Ijakadi     Sa\'adu Gambari     Umar Sanda Yusuf     Moshood Kashimawo Abiola     Olosi Of Osi     Park     Kwara Basketball Association     Abdulkadri Ahmad Alaiye     Oba David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Aasiyat Bello Oyedepo     Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     Suleman Abubakar     Woro     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Sheriff Olanrewaju     08001000100     Abdulazeez Arowona     Saadu Gbogbo Iwe     Gbajabiamila     Ibikunle Ogunleye     Ayotunde Emmanuel Alao     Muslim Cementary     AbdulGafar Tosho     Oni Adebayo     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     Adaramaja     Ayeyemi Sulaiman     Mohammed Abdulahi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Trade Lenda SME Fair     Joseph Daudu     Arinola Lawal     Sulyman Age AbdulKareem     Saadu Alanamu     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Isau     Col. Adedipe     Kola Bukoye     Kawu     Tosin Saraki     IEDPU     Maryam Ado Bayero     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     Aro Yahaya     Yusuf Amuda Aluko     Adamu Attah     Suleiman Ajadi     Share     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     Yetunde Balogun     Nupe     Mahee Abdulkadir     Government House     Taofeek Sanusi     Emmanuel Bello     Razak Atunwa     Olugbense     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita     Yashikira     Federal Allocation     Old Oyo     Micheal Imodu-Ganmo Road     Offa     Salary     NAWOJ     Trader Moni     Bolaji Nagode     Yahaya Oloriegbe     BECE     Charcoal     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Igbaja     Femi Gbajabiamila     11th Galadima     Adama Isa     Tsaragi-Share     Lucky Omoluwa     Ile Arugbo     Razaq Atunwa     Amosa     QuickWin     Ajeigbe     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     AbdulGafar Tosho     Niyi Ogundiran     Ahmad Uthman     Elerin Of Erin-Ile     General Hospital, Ilorin     Usman Yunusa     Galadiman Ngeri     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     Rafiu Ajakaye     Segun Olawoyin     Al-Ilory     COVID     Siraj Oyewale     Idiagbon     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Aliyu Muhammed     Law School Scholarship     Clara Nwachukwu     Abraysports FC     Salami Adekunle     Ibrahim Bio