Rotary Embarks On Anti Polio Campaign In PH

Rotary Club of GRA in
conjunction with four other Rotary Clubs, Trans Amadi, Port Harcourt South, Port Harcourt Highrise and Choba – University of Port Harcourt, has organised a sensitisation campaign in Port Harcourt against the deadly scourge of polio to mark the 2013 edition of the World Polio Day.
Leading the road work and awareness campaign through major streets of Port Harcourt yesterday, the president of the Rotary club of GRA, Rotarian Mediline Tador, said the campaign was part of the policies of Rotary international to eradicate the scourge of polio among children.
She said the campaign was carried out by rotary clubs all over the world and called on mothers to take advantage of the free vaccine and immunisation programme coming up on  November  4, 2013 in Rivers State, and ensure that all children below the age of five are immunised.
Tador noted that, polio was still endemic and children were at serious risk and the only remedy for the disease is immunisation.
Speaking in an interview with The Tide, the Assistant Governor zone 22, Rotary International, district 140, Nze Anizor, said the Rotary international was committed to the eradication of polio, especially in Nigeria were cases of polio was still on the increase.
He called for a collaborative effort towards the fight against polio, noting that Rotary international was already collaborating with relevant agencies and institutions, such as the World Health Organisation, the Rivers State Government, the media among others to eradicate polio. On her remark, the state chairman of the Radio Television and Theathre Workers Union, (RATTAWU) in Rivers State, Comrade, O.P Erekosima, said the union was in partnership with Rotary to make the campaign against polio more effective in Rivers State.
She said the union would use its media organs to carry the campaign to the grassroots for proper sensitisation.

Taneh Beemene