The task force on polio eradication in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has promised to eradicate the deadly disease in 2015.
The Director, Primary Health Care in the territory’s Primary Health Care Board, Dr. (Mrs). Balarabe Hadiza, made the promise at a stakeholders’ meeting in Kuje area council, saying that the meeting “Is the coordinating body for all activities that centre around immunisation in terms of planning for programming.”
Also speaking, the head of department (HOD), Health, Kuje area council, (Mrs) Veronica Yama, said the “meeting is a kind of stakeholders’ where the chiefs, councilors, religious leaders, traditional rulers and even the women leaders are involved,” stressing that “this would enable them to go and mobilise the people under their jurisdiction in the communities so that the massage would go round so that nobody will be left out, in order that polio can be eradicated.”
Earlier, Hon. Jonah Dizaho Auta district head of Dibe in Kuje area council, in his contribution also appealed to traditional rulers in their communities to cooperate with the team “so that they can carry out their duties effectively.”
