Hussaini Ibrahim Kafi in Kano
The Adamawa State Government on Saturday launched a four-day oral polio vaccination campaign targeting over 1.3 million children aged 0–59 months across the 21 LGAs.
The exercise, scheduled from June 14 to 17, is backed by 1,572,300 doses of the vaccine, AHR gathered.
At a press briefing, Dr. James Vasumu, State Director of Disease Control and Immunization, said, “We have carried out sensitization across all 226 wards to ensure parents bring their children forward.”
Dr. Suleiman Bashir, Executive Chairman of the State Primary Health Care Development Agency, appealed for public support and media coverage, stressing, “We need behavioural change among households. We need them to believe the vaccine is safe.”
AHR reports that Professor Georgina Odaibo of the Emergency Operation Centre affirmed the vaccine’s safety, noting, “Though Nigeria is free of wild polio, we must stay protected against any possible re-entry.”
