Immunisation: Nasarawa Govt partners traditional institution on mobilisation

Immunisation: Nasarawa Govt partners traditional institution on mobilisation
By Awayi Kuje
Polio
Karu (Nasarawa state), Oct. 29, 2018 (NAN) The Nasarawa state Government has urged traditional rulers in the state to mobilise parents to avail their children to all immunisation response exercise towards eradicating polio and other deadly diseases.
Mr Vincent Olotu, the Team Leader and member of the state’s Social Mobilisation Committee on Polio Immunisation, made this known on Monday when the committee paid a courtesy call on the Etsu Karu, Mr Luka Baba, in Karu.
Olotu said that the committee were in the royal father’s palace to seek his assistance to massively mobilise his subjects to embrace the forthcoming polio immunisation to eradicate polio and other diseases in the state.
He said that the committee would continue to educate the people on the danger of polio to wipe out the disease in the country.
The team leader commended the role played by the traditional ruler during previous exercises and called for its sustenance.
“We need to make sure communities in the state key into the response efforts of government; that is why we are here to seek your assistance on the need for you to mobilise your subjects to embrace polio vaccination,” he said.
He added that polio immunisation is not harmful, hence the need for parents to cooperate with vaccinators to eradicate the disease.
The leader of the team called for collective effort among Nigerians to eradicate polio and other deadly diseases to improve on the people’s health.
Responding, Baba thanked them for the visit and assured of his continued commitment to mobilise parents to embrace polio immunisation in the interest of the health of their children.
The first class monarch therefore urged his subjects and Nigerians to embrace peace and tolerate one another irrespective of their affiliation, in the interest of development.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the forthcoming Polio immunisation in the state would commence on Nov. 3. (NAN)
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Edited by Ifeyinwa Okonkwo/Muhammad Suleiman Tola