The National Primary Health Care Development Agency has said that 32 million Nigerian children will be immunised to improve their immunity against wild polio virus.
The four days campaign will focus on 11 states across the federation. The states include Bauchi, Borno, Jigawa, Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Kebbi, Niger, Sokoto, Yobe and Zamfara.
Dr Ado Muhammad, executive director of the agency said “The risk of missing any child is enormous, and we don’t want to miss any child in those locations.”
Muhammad explained that migrant internally displaced children in 96 camps will get higher doses of the vaccine to ensure that there is higher zero conversion to ensure population immunity.
Few weeks ago, World Health Organisation took Nigeria off a list of polio-endemic countries after it interrupted transmission of the virus for the first time in 17 years.
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