Adamawa State has set aside 1.4 million doses of vaccine in its fresh anti-polio campaign targeting 1.2 million children.
The state has mobilised 1,685 teams of health personnel for the exercise, scheduled to begin this Sunday, March 29.
The teams, each comprising a vaccinator, a community sensitiser, and a recorder, are to visit each of the 226 wards of the 21 local government areas of the state, administering oral polio vaccination to children aged 0–59 months.
The details were disclosed in the state capital on Friday during a media briefing on the exercise, as part of activities of the National Immunization Plus Campaign, supported in the state by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in collaboration with the Adamawa State Primary Health Care Development Agency (ADSPHCDA).
The Chief Executive of the ADSPHCDA, Dr Sulaiman Bashir, said the polio campaign remains necessary for Nigeria to be doubly sure that the polio virus does not affect anyone should it be brought from any country that still has the virus.
He said that even after the four scheduled days of the exercise (from Sunday to Wednesday, April 1), two further days will be declared so that any household not reached for any reason in the first four days will be visited.
“This is a unique exercise, the only one that takes us to every household in the state,” Bashir said.
Eze Chidiebere Paul
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