Jigawa urges media to boost immunisation awareness, tackle vaccine refusal

Jigawa State has called connected the media to intensify nationalist consciousness campaigns connected the value of immunisation, aimed astatine eliminating non-compliance crossed the state.

The State Immunisation Officer, Dr Shehu Ibrahim, made the telephone during a one-day wide mobilisation dialog connected the polio run and regular immunisation, organised by the State Primary Health Care Development Agency successful collaboration with UNICEF Kano Field Office.

The engagement brought unneurotic journalists, societal media influencers, younker advocates and U-Reporters to reappraisal the result of the caller March polio run and sermon strategies for improving caregivers’ trust, vaccine acceptance and nationalist knowing of the value of immunisation.

He said the authorities had vaccinated astir 2.5 cardinal children nether the property of 5 successful the latest campaign, representing 116 per cent of the target, describing the show arsenic a motion of increasing committedness to kid wellness successful the state.

He noted that contempt sustained consciousness efforts involving the media, accepted institutions and spiritual leaders, cases of vaccine refusal were inactive recorded successful a fewer section authorities areas.

According to him, each of the 27 section authorities areas is expected to grounds astatine slightest 95 per cent immunisation coverage, but immoderate councils performed beneath the required benchmark.

Shehu disclosed that the authorities recorded 5,421...