By Haruna Gimba
The Kano state government has approved N350 million for the 2017 Routine Immunization exercise in the state.
The Executive Secretary of the Primary Health Care Management Board, Dr Nasir Muhammad, stated this at an event to mark the 2017 African vaccination week, organized by Accountability Mechanism for Maternal Newborn and Child Health in Kano state (AMMKaS).
Dr Muhammad said the state government is taking the issue of Immunization serious, which according to him “is the most cost effective way of eradicating diseases.”
In his remark, the state Commissioner for Health, Dr Kabir Ibrahim Getso, said government had spent over N4bn on the purchase of modern equipment for the health facilities across the state.
He said some of the equipment procured include digital mammogram, digital fluoroscopy, 64 slice CT scan machine gantry; ceiling mounted digital and X-Ray machine.
Others are; reverse osmosis machine, 2D color Doppler ultra sound scanning machine and ultra modern Haemodialysis machine among others.
Earlier, the Co-Chair of the organization, Hajiya Hafsat Kolo explained the importance of vaccine in saving the lives of the children, calling on government to increase its budget for the immunization programme.
