Immunisation: Kwara is polio-free, says Gov. AbdulRazaq

Date: 2020-02-14

Governor AbdulRazaq AbdulRahman of Kwara says the state has achieved and sustained its polio-free status for the past five months across the 16 local government areas. AbdulRahman, who was represented by his Deputy, Mr Kayode Alabi, disclosed this on Thursday in Ilorin, during the flag-off of the February Round of the National Immunization Plus Days.

He lamented that the state had a recurrent outbreak of the circulating Vaccine Derived Polio (cVDPV) during the last administration. "The situation was so bad that Kwara was ranked with the highest number of the virus isolated both from human and environmental samples.

"This is as a result of years of neglect, poor funding and donor dependence of the state in the implementation of immunisation and primary healthcare programmes," he said.

The governor stated that his administration took ownership and funding of the immunisation programme which, he said, has interrupted the transmission of the virus in the state. According to him, the flag-off of the 2020 NIPDs expanded programme on immunisation in Nigeria has achieved some growth in service coverage in the last few years with huge investment by government and development partner agencies. He added that the 2015 and 2016 Multi Indicators Cluster and National Immunisation Coverage Surveys showed that Pentavalent 3 Vaccine coverage was 33 per cent and full immunisation coverage was 23 per cent.

According to him, this implies that about 60 per cent of eligible children are not appropriately immunised with all life saving vaccines. 'This coverage is inadequate to provide protection from vaccine preventable diseases," he said. The governor noted that the state will continue to meet the standard of requirements for quality polio campaign and strengthening of routine immunisation service delivery. AbdulRazaq therefore urged mothers, religious bodies, schools, care givers and community leaders across the state to make all children between ages of zero and five years available for the NIPDs commencing on Feb. 15.

The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Raji Razaq, represented by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mr Iliyasu Idris, described immunisation as the most important public health intervention known to man. He said that vaccination has prevented the spread of diseases and deaths all over the world. Earlier, Dr Abimbola Folorunso, the Executive Secretary, Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency, observed that since August 2019, no case of the polio virus has been recorded in the state. (NAN)

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita     Kayode Ogunlowo     Babata     Ahmed Dankaya     Tsaragi-Share     Baba Issa Awoye     Ajakaye     Mazars Consulting     Abubakar Lah     Offa Metropolitan Club     CLAY POT     First Lady     Olatunji Ayeni     Kwara State Football Association     Omu-aran     JSSCE     Risikat Lawal     Adeola Abraham     Sheriff Shagaya     Cornelius Adebayo     Muazam Nayaya     Students Union Government     Ibrahim Abikan     CELF     Ibrahim Labaika     Ilorin Emirate Stakeholders Forum     VADA     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Gbenga Adebayo     Kwara State Pension Board     Opobiyi     Lai Mohammed     Aishat Mohammed Lawal     Third Estate     Abdulmumini AbdulRazaq     Suleiman Yahya Alapansapa     Adesoye     Suleiman Ajadi     Raymond Olaitan     Baboko Primary School     NIRSAL     Simon Sayomi     Harafat E. Mukadam     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     All Confederation Of Principals Of Secondary Schools     Mahmud Ayinla Giwa     Abdulwahab Olarewaju Issa     Najim Yaasin     Iqra Books     Oniye     Moses Afolayan     Baakini     Waheed Ibrahim     Muftau Akanbi Oke     James Kolo     Iponrin     Makama Of Kaiama     Saba Jibril     Bayo Ajia     Sobi Specialist Hospital     Ilorin Anchor Men And Women     All Peoples Party     Balikis Jawondo     Doyin Agbamu     Sarah Alade     Elerin Of Adanla Irese     Aliyu Olatunji Ajanaku     Abdulquowiyu Olododo     Balogun Gambari     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     Bello Oyebanji     Ubandoma     Abubakar Abdulraheem     Ahmad Uthman     PharmAccess Foundation     Playing Host     Shaykh Luqman Jimoh    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Olatunde Michaels     Ado Bayero     Muritala Olarewaju     LABTOP     Vishvas KOZ Tractors     Amada Jidda     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Oba Abdulraheem     Samari     Modupe Oluwole     Igosun     Afolayan     Joseph Offorjama     Muslim Cementary     Tunji Olawuyi     Pakata Patriots     Titus Ashaolu     Agbarere     Crystal Corner Shops     Wahab Abayawo     Aishat Mohammed Lawal     Saliu Alamoyo     Opolo Global Innovation Limited     Aishat Sulu-Gambari     Saliu Tunde Bello     Guber Aspirant     Abdulwahab Olarewaju Issa     Agboola Babatunde     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     Kwara State Government     Otuka     Tanke Road     Alikinla     Elekoyangan     Saka Adeyemo     Islamic Development Bank     Salihu Ajibola Ajia     Afin Descendants Union Of Odo-Owa     TESCOM 2025     Alaaya     Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     Sanitation Exercise     Lawal Jimoh     Balogun Gambari     Sarafadeen Kayode Akorede     IPSAS     Noah Yusuf     Oloruntoyosi Thomas     Jalala     Hausa     Shoprite     Adeola Abraham     Habeeb Saidu     Nagode     Adijat Adebiyi     Iyabo Adisa Ibiyeye     Saraki     Ike Ekweremadu     Onilorin Of Ilorin     Bello Oyedepo     Maryam A. Garuba     Femi Gbajabiamila     Muhammad Yahya     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Yoonus Lawal     Alabe     Mohammed Danjuma     Abdulfatai Salman Baakini     Arinola Lawal     Kaiama     SARS     AbdulRauf Keji     Yunus Oniboki     Ubandawaki     KWSIEC     Ibrahim Abikan     Idi-Ape