Immunisation: Anambra Targets 940,000 Children

The Anambra Commissioner for Health, Prof. Amobi Ilika, says the ministry will target to reach 940, 000 children in the latest Immunisation plus days. 

Ilika said this on Monday while starting the Immunisation Plus Day/Maternal, and New Born and Child Health Week at Nteje, in Oyi Local Government Area.

He called on parents to involve their children, wards and women of child-bearing age in the child health week programme.

The commissioner said the exercise was initiated by health indicators of the ministry after reviewing the state of health delivery services available to the people.

“This became necessary after we discovered that the health delivery level has dropped from 80 per cent to 64 per cent.

“It became an issue of concern and therefore the need to scale up health delivery services,’’ he said.

Ilika explained that the programme was poised to stop the transmission of wild polio virus in the country, through the delivery of supplemental oral polio vaccines (OPV), to all eligible children in the country.

He said:“We will scale up integration and delivery of other routine immunisation antigens, vitamin A supplementation as well as other child survival interventions.

I plead with people to allow us access as the medications being administered are not harmful.

“We at the health ministry will also give them to our family members. We ask that you help this government to achieve the MDG’’.