By Haruna Gimba
The Sokoto State Government said it is targeting no fewer than 1.8 million children under five years in the ongoing four-day polio immunisation exercise.
The state Deputy Governor, Alhaji Ahmed Aliyu, disclosed this in Sokoto in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
Alhaji Aliyu, who is also the Chairman, State Taskforce on Polio Immunisation, said that the exercise that commenced on Saturday ends
on Tuesday.
He said that efforts were on to ensure over 100 per cent coverage of the targeted children in the 23 local government areas.
The deputy governor also announced that the state government had distributed about 1.83 million doses of Oral Polio Vaccines across the
state.
He said that no fewer than 2, 515 teams, comprising 9, 429 health personnel were engaged to conduct the exercise.
The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Alhaji Almustapha Othman, also told NAN that measures were taken to ensure the full
acceptance of the exercise by parents.
Alhaji Othman expressed happiness that parents in the state had embraced immunisation.
The Executive Secretary, State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr. Sani Labaran explained that social mobilisation was intensified is to shore up the acceptance of polio immunisation by parents.
