C’River Targets 693,000 Children For Meningitis Immunisation

The Cross River State Government says it was targeting at least 693,000 children, between the ages of one to five years, in its meningitis vaccination campaign which kicked off early this week and would last till December 12, 2020
The State Deputy Governor, Prof. Ivara Esu, who stated this in Calabar during the official flag off of the campaign, noted that the state government was determined to “protect Cross River State children from all vaccines preventable childhood diseases.”
The Deputy Governor who was represented by the State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Beta Edu, noted that “we need to protect our children from meningitis because it kills, deforms the brain, affects their growth and cognitive reasoning and brings with it huge economic burden to not only their families but to the society and the health sector.
“These are things we don’t want to happen, and that is why the state government is harping on prevention, and one of the ways to do this is to administer vaccines to them.
“We should be able to deliver vaccines in potent forms to our children all over the state. For this campaign, we are targeting 693,000 children and we shall deliver these vaccines in potent forms to our children.”

By: Friday Nwagbara, Calabar