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 Audu, while speaking in Ilorin during a meeting of experts, lamented that while the country was consuming most of the world’s polio vaccines, the virus has not stopped infecting its children.
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 He told the Third Quarter Review/Engagement Meeting of Kwara State Traditional Leaders’ Council Committee on Health that the ailment has resurged, and was spreading especially in some Northern states.
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 Audu said Zamfara alone has about 35 per cent prevalence, and that non-compliance has been a factor that has been stopping the total eradication of polio in Nigeria.
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 <em>“Non-compliance cases are buried and hidden. These are some of the problems that disrupt vaccine programmes in the country,”</em> he said.
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 Audu appealed to the traditional leaders to help the government in the improvement of routine vaccinations for polio, measles and whooping cough in the country.
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 In her address, <strong>Dr Nusirat Elelu</strong>, the Executive Secretary of the Kwara State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, said the meeting was to bring together traditional institutions and other stakeholders.
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 <em>“This bringing together is for robust engagement on community ownership of vaccine programmes,” </em>she said.
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 Elelu, who was represented by <strong>Dr Michael Oguntoye</strong>, the Agency’s Director of the Primary Healthcare System, noted that trained healthcare workers were utilised for vaccine programmes in the state.
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 She appealed to people in the state to allow their children to receive life-saving protection.
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 The Executive Secretary observed that there were still pockets of recalcitrant individuals who posed a challenge to effective vaccination exercise.
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 She however reiterated the resolve of the state government to partner with traditional and religious leaders to ensure polio was wiped out of Kwara and the country.
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 In his Lecture, <strong>Ademola Enikanselu</strong>, the Programme Officer, of Chigari Foundation in Kwara, appealed to traditional leaders and partners to monitor vaccine coverage and uptake in their various communities.
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 <em>“There is a need to trail the progress, towards immunisation and identify areas for improvement,</em>” he said.
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 Enikanselu also advised them to report challenges and barriers to vaccine shortages in the community.
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