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.

Saad Omo Iya     IQRA College     Aliyu U. Tilde     Samari     Adedipe     Umar Ayinla Saro     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Omoniyi Ayinla     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     Ibrahim Taiwo     Abdul-Rasheed Na\'Allah     Mahe Abdulkadir     Pategi     IYA ALFA NLA     Ilorin South Constituency     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Olawuyi     Lanre Issa-Onilu     Adesina Simon Sodiya     Abdul Jimoh Mohammed     Saka Saadu     Dauda Adesola     Michael Nzwekwe     Federal Polytechnic Offa     Kishira     Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Ilofa     Maigida Soludero Transit     Oniye     Oniyangi     Arinola Lawal     Nigeria Customs Service     Fatimat Saliu     Senior Special Assistant On Student Affairs     Aliyu Muhammed     NTA Ilorin     Saad Omo\'ya     Folajimi Aleshinloye     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Yakubu Shaaba     Sambo Murtala     Sobi FM     Ojo Isekuse     Adebayo Mohammed Kamaldeen     Iyiola Oyedepo     Bayo Ojo     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Idi-Ape     Kwara State University Of Education     LAK Jimoh     Igosun     Ayekale     Titus Ashaolu     Yakub Ali-Agan     Dumagi     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     Iyaloja-General     Kwara State Health Insurance Agency     Oko-Erin     Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Unicontinental Construction Company     Yomi Ogunsola     Abubakar Usman Jos     Toyin Sanusi     National Union Of Road Transport Workers     Abikan     University Road     Joseph Yemi Ajayi     A.E. Afolabi     TESCOM 2025     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye     Olusegun Adeniyi     Funmilayo Mohammed     Galadima    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Isiaka Abdulrazak     Ajakaye     Fareedah Dankaka     Saliu Ajibola Ajia     Niyi Ogundiran     Saduki Lafiagi     Oba Abu     Aliyu Kora Sabi     Olayinka Oladapo Jogunola     Sam Onile     Abdulwahab Oba     Folorunsho Erubu     Abdullahi Saadudeen Alikinla     GRA     Oba-Solagberu     Shuaib Boni Aliyu     Saudat Abdulbaqi     Na\'Allah     Egbewole     Eleja Taiwo Banu     Shehu Salau     Saidu Isa     Biliaminu Aliu     Samuel Elizabeth Keatswa     Yahaya A Paniyaro     Moses Rahman Popoola     Majlis For Sadaqah, Zakat And Waqf     Kwara State Government     Gbemisola Saraki     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     Oba Mogaji Abdulkadir     Ajidagba     Yahaya Abdulkareem Babaita     Azeez Salawu     Kamaldeen Kehinde     Press Release     Towoju     NURTW     Akume     Jumoke Gafar     Isapa     Ado Ibrahim     Aisha Buhari     NIRSAL     Baba Issa Awoye     ASKOMP     Suwa-Arabs     Sadiq Umar     Rafiu Ibrahim     Offorjama     Kassim Babamale     Kale Bayero     Assayomo     Turaki Of Ilorin     Trader Moni     Madawaki     Ayeyemi Sulaiman     Aishat Mohammed Lawal     Metro Park     KWIRS     Mary Kemi Adeosun     Funmilayo Braithwaite     Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited     Onilorin Of Ilorin     Oba Of Jebba     Matthew Okedare     Lai Gobir     Smart School     Omupo     Lasiele Alabi Yahaya     Osuwa     NTA Ilorin     Peter Obi     Oke-Ode     Jide Oyinloye     SSA Youth Engagement     Yinka Aluko