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Yellow Fever Vaccination: Kwara records  90% coverage

 

By Joke Adeniyi-Jackson

Over 90 per cent of the targeted population for the Yellow Fever vaccination in Kwara State were immunised in the just conclude programme, National Pilot has learnt.
The Executive Secretary of the state of Primary Health Care (Development Agency), Dr. Abimbola Patience Folorunsho revealed this during a telephone chat with our reporter, last Monday.
The statewide 10-day vaccination against the ailment was concluded penultimate Tuesday while a mop up exercise conducted for three days ended Friday of same week.
Giving assessment of the programme, the PHC expressed satisfaction over the huge turn out of children within the age range of 9months to 5 years for the immunisation.
The expert explained that the vaccination could not be conducted from house to house because of the nature of the vaccine.
“The vaccine is not meant to be taken from house to house because they are injectables, but people expected us to bring it to their doorsteps to be vaccinated,” she added.
She, however disclosed that the exercise was taken to religious houses while clerics also helped in enlightenment of members of their congregations on the programme.
She described the exercise as hitch free and successive, which she hinged on the awareness and enlightenment created for the vaccination in the state.
She further said that immunisation against measles for children will soon commence in the state, appealing to mothers to ensure that their kids are vaccinated against childhood diseases.

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