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Delta Launches Measles Vaccination Campaign
Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa has launched the 2022 State Integrated Measles Vaccine Campaign in Asaba, the State Capital.
The Governor also received the United States Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (USCDC) Award for exemplary leadership in healthcare financing at the occasion.
He recounted that the award entails Partnership for Sustainability Healthcare Financing which borders on Budgeting, Release and Expenditure, announced at the USCDC Biannual Programme Performance Review Meeting and 2022 End of Project Cycle Symposium held in Abuja.
Okowa commended World Health Organisation (WHO), the UN Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF), National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), and other partners for collaborating with the State Government to safeguard the health of children.
He said the launch of the campaign was a component strategy at sensitising mothers and caregivers the need to inoculate their children and wards aged between nine months and 59 months with the measles vaccine.
He explained that measles outbreak occur when there is high proportion of children with zero-dose immunisation.
“The objective of the immunisation is to increase population immunity, thereby reducing the risk of measles virus transmission and outbreak in communities.
“This, in addition to poor community and environmental hygiene practices, are risk factors for the disease.
“It is one of the diseases of great public health importance, thus requiring enormous collective efforts of individuals, households, health workers and various community-based organisations to ensure prevention, control and surveillance,” he said.
Okowa added that the State Government, through her policy of clean environment and tackling floods, had been constructing drainage systems across the landscape.
“I call on people of Delta to properly dispose their refuse and not dump them in the drains as this has serious health consequences for communities.
“Apart from worsening the flood situation in those areas, it will nurture more breeding sites for disease vectors.
I hereby admonish all of us to take responsibility for our personal and communal health”, the Governor urged.
He also called on mothers to come out massively with their children aged nine to 59 months and get them vaccinated against the deadly measles disease, irrespective of previous vaccination status at the various health facilities across the State.
Earlier, the Commissioner for Health, Dr Mordi Ononye, said measles is one of the vaccine- preventable diseases of childhood and accounts for large proportion of child deafness, blindness and death among under-five children.
He said the vaccination would be implemented in two phases for effective supervisory support by skilled health workers.
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