By Usman Ibn A. Lapai
Kaduna
Kaduna state Governor, Alhaji Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, has called on parents and guardians to always allow their children and wards to be immunised against polio towards kicking out the disease from the state in particular and the country as a whole.
He gave the charge at the flag-off of the Sub-National Immunisation Plus days (SIPDs) for the month of June 2014 at Richifa Village in Soba local government area.
He said parents must allow their children of between zero to five years to be immunised to make them healthier “so that in future they would be useful to themselves and to the society.”
Yero, who spoke through the Commissioner for Health, Dr Joseph Dogo Thot, commended development partners for their support and cooperation in the fight against children killer diseases.
In his speech, the executive secretary, Primary Health Care Agency, Dr Sufiyan Mu’awiyyah Babale, said arrangement towards the successful implementation of the June 2014 SIPDs had been concluded both at the state and local government levels.
“I can confidently say that we are well prepared and ready to implement the exercise throughout the state,” he said.
Babale announced that since November 2012 to date, there had been no single case of wild polio virus, adding that “Kaduna state is now 19 months consecutively without a single case of wild polio virus.”
