Polio Immunization Exercise Records Huge Success in Adamawa Says Parents

Polio immunization exercise records huge success in Adamawa says parents 

From Umar Dankano,Yola.

As the National Immunization Plus Days (NIPDs) entered it third day, parents and guardians have expressed gratitude to the government and its development partners for mobilizing the necessary resource.

A visit by this reporter to Primary Health Care Centre wuro jabbe in Yola South local government area in Adamawa state Monday was greeted with large turn out of parents especially nursing mothers with a view to ensure that their wards to receive oral polio vaccines being administer at the facility free of charge.

Answering questions from journalists on the exercise, a mother, Fatima Mohammad said that, she got the news of the immunization exercise through her husband who advised her to go to the hospital for their daughter to receive the vaccine.

Mohammad commended the community mobilizers for a job well done in the sensitization drive which she said has changed the myth about the efficacy of the immunization to the children in their communities.

Another parent,Abdullahi Suleiman wuro jabbe confessed that the immunization exercise was apt and impactful to the social and mental health of the children noting that all his other two children have been receiving immunization as at when due.

Suleiman advised other parents and guardians to also help in raising awareness to people in their various communities on the importance of the immunization exercise of age zero to 59 months.

Similarly the village head of wuro jabbe ,Alhaji Bashiru Ahmadu Pullo explained that the exercise recorded the success due to various community meetings,his council had with the 35 ward heads in the area.

Ahmadu Pullo added that the exercise is getting acceptability by the day because the committee members are on top of the situation declaring that even in few cases where resistance was recorded as a result of cultural and religious beliefs, the committee invites such parents to meetings for sensitization in due course.

He however called on parents and guardians to always support and coorperate with the health care givers visiting their places in the over all interest of our society and the children.

Earlier the facility manager of PHCC Wuro jabbe, Alhaji Sadiq Musa applauded the organized strategies being adopted by the government in immunization exercise as it has already recorded rapid acceptability despite little cases of myth in some areas.