Polio myelitis: Traditional ruler urges workers to report stubborn parents

The District Head of Malumfashi in Katsina State, retired Justice Mamman Nasir, has enjoined immunisation workers to report parents who reject administration of polio vaccine on their children.Speaking while launching the fifth round of National Immunisation Campaign in his palace at the weekend, Nasir, former Court of Appeal president, insisted that safeguarding children's health is the collective responsibility of parents and leaders.He likened rejection of immunisation vaccines to subjecting of public health to preventable dangers.He called on parents to submit their children for vaccination during national immunisation campaigns and routine vaccination at the various health care centres in the area.Malam Musa Naduna, WHO facilitator for Immunisation Against Poliomyelitis and other child-killer diseases in Malumfashi, said that 105, 677 children were targeted for immunisation in the area.Naduna said no case of polio had been reported in Katsina State since 2010, and urged parents to sustain the feat by submitting their eligible children for vaccination.According to him, a single poliomyelitis case could affect about 200 other children and called for collective efforts to safeguard the health of Nigerians.
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