Muhammad Garba
The Emir of Dutse His Highness, Hameem Nuhu Sanusi, has flagged a special polio vaccine campaign targeting over 1.5 million children in Jigawa State.
He flagged off the campaign at his palace after personally administering the vaccine to some children, he assured the general public that, it was safe and effective.
Emir Sanusi notes that traditional institutions will continue to pursue and promote anything that will enhance the health, and social and economic well-being of the people and equally go against anything not good for the people.
He called on parents to bring out their children for the vaccination to enable Jigawa state to sustain the gains of polio eradication thirteen years back.
While fielding questions from newsmen after the flagging off of the campaign, the Jigawa state Director of Primary Healthcare, Dr Sambo Shehu, stated that all necessary arrangements were made for the success of the vaccination exercise.
The Emir explained that over 1.5 million children from 0-5 years are targeted for the vaccination and over 3,000 teams comprising over 15,000 ad-hoc-staff were mobilized for the exercise to reach every child across the 27 local government areas of the state.
“The vaccination aims to strengthen the immunity of our children against any possible resurgence of the Polio virus which we eradicated out of our state for the past 13 years.
“It is a collective responsibility to keep our children and our society safe from this and another deadly virus, therefore we called on everyone to play his expected role for achieving the desired goals,” Dr. Sambo stated
