By Haruna Gimba
The Bunza Local Government Council of Kebbi, said it has targeted 700 children in the area for immunisation against polio which starts next week.
The Director of Heath in the council, Malam Junaidu Gwandu told newsmen in Bunza town, that the council had received 80,000 doses of vaccines for exercise.
Malam Gwandu said appropriate personnel have been assembled and trained for the exercise.
“We will conduct house-to-house and school-to-school exercise to ensure that all the target persons are reached,” he said.
He explained that the area had not recorded any case of polio outbreak in the last four years and that the council hopes to sustain the record.
He called on parents to make their children available for the immunization.
The director stressed that his department would closely monitor the exercise to stem incidences of rejection by some parents.
It was reported that the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency declared Kebbi polio free in 2012.
