The Kaduna State Government has focused between 1.3 million and 1.5 million kids below the age of 5 for vaccination towards polio in a sub-national immunisation marketing campaign throughout 9 native authorities areas of the state beginning as we speak, Thursday, November 5, 2026.
Notification has been despatched despatched to properties, faculties, worship facilities, streets, playgrounds amongst others for efficient protection inside per week.
The State Health Education Officer of the Kaduna State Primary Health Care Board, Isah Yushau, instructed LEADERSHIP on preparations for the marketing campaign, saying 101 wards could be coated.
The marketing campaign, he mentioned, was geared toward defending kids from polio, notably in view of the circulation of mutant poliovirus in neighbouring states and the detection of instances in Kaduna.
He recognized the focused native authorities areas as Chikun, Igabi, Giwa, Kudan, Makarfi, Ikara, Soba, Sabon Gari and Zaria.
According to him, vaccination groups would attain kids in households, faculties, church buildings, mosques, playgrounds, streets and different areas the place kids are prone to be discovered.
“We have already made satisfactory plans to go to all these locations.
“Our personnel have been trained, and adequate supplies of vaccines and other logistics have been provided,” he mentioned.
The well being official defined that the marketing campaign was notably vital as a result of neighbouring states have been experiencing infections from totally different variants of poliovirus.
He added that Kaduna State had additionally recorded the isolation of two mutant poliovirus samples earlier within the 12 months in Soba and Igabi native authorities areas, following comparable detections in some native authorities areas in the direction of the top of final 12 months.
Yushau mentioned the event underscored the necessity to make sure that all eligible kids acquired the required doses of polio vaccines to strengthen their immunity towards the illness.
He urged mother and father and caregivers to cooperate with vaccination groups and make sure that their kids acquired routine immunisation towards childhood killer ailments.
“The health of our children is our pride, and parents and caregivers need to do everything within their capacity to ensure that their children get all the required vaccines against childhood killer diseases,” he mentioned.
Yushau additional mentioned that, past the polio marketing campaign, different vaccines have been out there at designated immunisation posts to guard kids towards ailments akin to tuberculosis, measles, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough and pneumonia.
The vaccines supplied below the nationwide immunisation schedule remained important to defending kids from preventable ailments.
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