The Kaduna State Government has focused between 1.3 million and 1.5 million youngsters underneath the age of 5 for vaccination in opposition to polio in a sub-national immunisation marketing campaign throughout 9 native authorities areas of the state beginning in the present day, Thursday, November 5, 2026.
Notification has been despatched despatched to houses, faculties, worship facilities, streets, playgrounds amongst others for efficient protection inside every week.
The State Health Education Officer of the Kaduna State Primary Health Care Board, Isah Yushau, informed LEADERSHIP on preparations for the marketing campaign, saying 101 wards can be lined.
The marketing campaign, he stated, was aimed toward defending youngsters 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 youngsters in households, faculties, church buildings, mosques, playgrounds, streets and different areas the place youngsters are more likely to be discovered.
“We have already made sufficient plans to go to all these locations.
“Our personnel have been trained, and adequate supplies of vaccines and other logistics have been provided,” he stated.
The well being official defined that the marketing campaign was notably necessary as a result of neighbouring states have been experiencing infections from completely different variants of poliovirus.
He added that Kaduna State had additionally recorded the isolation of two mutant poliovirus samples earlier within the yr in Soba and Igabi native authorities areas, following comparable detections in some native authorities areas in direction of the tip of final yr.
Yushau stated the event underscored the necessity to make sure that all eligible youngsters acquired the required doses of polio vaccines to strengthen their immunity in opposition to the illness.
He urged dad and mom and caregivers to cooperate with vaccination groups and be sure that their youngsters acquired routine immunisation in opposition to 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 stated.
Yushau additional stated that, past the polio marketing campaign, different vaccines have been obtainable at designated immunisation posts to guard youngsters in opposition to ailments corresponding to tuberculosis, measles, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough and pneumonia.
The vaccines supplied underneath the nationwide immunisation schedule remained important to defending youngsters from preventable ailments.
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