The Lagos State Government, is set to commence the implementation of another round of house-to-house Polio Outbreak Response across 57 Local Government Local Council Development Areas of Lagos State Saturday July 22, 2023(today).
In a statement made available to thecolumnNG signed by Dr. Ibrahim Mustafa, the Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Primary Health Care Board he explained that the purpose of the exercise is to give two drops of the Novel Oral Polio vaccine to all children, aged 0 to five years irrespective of their previous immunisation status.
According to Mustafa, the vaccination exercise, it’s in partnership with developmental partners like World Health Organization WHO, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund UNICEF and others, is designed to boost the immunity of the target group against the circulating polio virus.
Dr. Mustapha said, “During the exercise, Vitamin A supplement will be administered orally to children aged six months to five years while deworming tablets will be given to children aged one to five years. Also, all children under five will be screened for malnutrition using MUAC tapes
He disclosed that the exercise is scheduled to commence on
Saturday 22nd and end on Tuesday 25th of July 2023
from 7.00 am daily, stressing that all facilities where children could be found including primary health centres, hospitals, houses, schools, churches, mosques, markets, shopping malls, playgrounds and gated estates, among others, would be visited without exception.
He therefore pleaded with Lagosians to cooperate with the government officials during the exercise by making their children available in order to eradicate other forms of Circulating Polio virus while assuring the public that the Polio vaccine is not only safe but also free and very effective.
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