Gombe State Primary Health Care Development Agency (GSPHCDA) has said no fewer than 643,294 within age 0 – 5 have been earmarked for immunisation under the present Polio Outbreak Response Immunization (PORI), in the State.
Maam Salish Mohammed Malami, the Higher Education Officer of the state Ministry of Health said the target figure was under the second phase of the exercise following outbreak at Biu, a neighbouring town in Borno state.
He said the Gombe office of World Health Organisation (WHO) and GSPHCDA decided to conduct three consecutive rounds of vaccination in areas prone to outbreaks.Gombe State, considering the closeness and influx of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from those States.
He further added that the exercise as a result was taking place in the six local government areas bordering Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states.
Malami said the exercise recorded over 75 per cent across the six local governments within the first two days with each of them recording 98 per cent successs.
He explained that the first round of the vaccination exercise was conducted from May 9 to 12, 2016 with not leas than 647,000 children immunized.
