Kebbi suspends immunisation due to lack of marker pens
“We are likely to receive the marker pens probably by Tuesday. “If it comes, we will commence the distribution of the vaccines on Wednesday while immunization proper will kick-off on Thursday this week. “However, all necessary materials to embark on the polio immunisation exercise are on ground, it is only the maker pens that are not available.” The Commissioner of Health, Alhaji Umar Kambaza, who also confirmed the suspension of the exercise, said that the markers would be available soon.
He said that the exercise targeted
one million children across the 225 wards in the state and would last for four
days. Kambaza said: “after the flag-off, I conducted inquiries in some of the
local governments in the state such as Aliero, Jega, Yauri, Birnin-Kebbi and Shanga.
“They all confirmed that the polio
immunisation exercise had been postponed to Thursday for the simple reason of
lack of marker pens to identify any child who has been immunised’’. Earlier,
the Deputy Governor, Col. Samaila Dabai (rtd), who flagged-off the exercise
with his children, said the campaign was very important to the state
government. According to him, this was to ensure that newborns to five years
old children are immunised against polio. Dabai said the reason for the
flagged-off at his residence was to enable him start the exercise with his
children. The deputy governor said: “if polio immunisation is harmful I will
not administer it on my blood children. So all the rumours about polio vaccine
is not true’’.
NAN
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