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The Niger State Government has intensified illness surveillance and assemblage sensitisation efforts pursuing the detection of 3 caller polio cases successful Mariga and Magama Local Government Areas.
The authorities has besides recorded cases of diphtheria successful Bida, Chanchaga and Suleja LGAs, prompting wellness authorities to fortify preventive measures against imaginable outbreaks.
As portion of the response, the Ministry of Health, successful collaboration with UNICEF and the United States Government, organised municipality hallway meetings for implicit 350 accepted rulers, spiritual leaders and assemblage stakeholders crossed affected areas.
Speaking astatine the engagement, the State Immunisation Officer, Abubakar Kpantu, said the instrumentality of polio aft years without a recorded lawsuit calls for greater attraction to regular immunisation and illness prevention.
“For years, we had not recorded immoderate lawsuit of polio, but precocious 3 cases were detected successful Mariga and Magama LGAs, portion diphtheria cases person been reported successful Suleja, Bida and Chanchaga,” helium said.
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