The Anambra State Government, in collaboration with partner agencies, would commence a four-day National Immunization Plus Days against polio across the state.Vincent Okpala, the state commissioner for health, during a news conference in Awka on Wednesday, disclosed that children under five years would be vaccinated against the disease with two drops of Oral Polio Vaccine irrespective of their immunisation status.
“The only way to protect children is to administer two drops of the oral polio vaccine to them during routine and supplementary polio immunisation days,” he said. “Our objective is to administer two drops of potent Oral Polio Vaccine to scale up delivery of routine immunisation antigens as well as other child survival interventions,” he said.
“Missing children during immunisation campaigns led to new and wider outbreaks that increased transmission of the Circulating Mutant Poliovirus , both globally and within Nigeria. “The NOPV has shown to be effective in halting the spread of the CMPV2 in the country and Anambra has two NOPV2 outbreak responses in 2021,” the commissioner said.
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