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Measles: FCTA conducts mop up vaccination
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Measles
By Mustapha Sumaila
Abuja, Feb. 26, 2018 (NAN) The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Primary Health Care Development Board has commenced a mop up vaccination on measles to ensure all the children in the territory were immunised.
The Acting Executive Secretary of the board, Dr Mathew Ashikeni, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday.
NAN recalls that the two weeks measles vaccination which ended last Thursday targeted 619,000 children from nine months to five years.
Ashikeni explained that the need for mop up became necessary to ensure all the missed children during the main exercise were captured.
He said that the mop up will be held in Abuja Municipal Area Council and some wards in the five other area councils.
“This mop up exercise which we just commenced on Sunday will last for one week and our goal is to ensure we achieve 100 per cent coverage.
“And within this period, the vaccines will be available in our health centres and hospitals to ensure children who could not get it during the just concluded immunisation will be given the opportunities to be vaccinated,” he said.
The scribe appealed to parents and caregivers whose children were not immunised to bring them out for the mop up exercise.
He said that in spite the few cases of missed children, the vaccination had recorded a tremendous success in the territory. (NAN)
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Edited by Muhammad Suleiman Tola

Measles: FCTA to hold vaccination in 3,998 settlements
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Measles
By Mustapha Sumaila
Abuja, Feb 1, 2018 (NAN) The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) says it has identified 3,998 settlements for vaccination against measles.
The exercise would hold between Feb. 8 and Feb. 20.
The Secretary of Health Secretariat and Human Resources, Mrs Amanda Pam, announced at a news conference in Abuja on Thursday.
Pam, who was represented by Dr Bamidele Babade, a Director from the secretariat, said that all the eligible children within the settlements have already been identified with a view to immunise all of them.
She explained that about 620,000 children are targeted to be immunised, while 1,400 team of vaccinators had been engaged to carry out the exercise across the six area councils in the territory.
According to her, the forthcoming vaccination is targeting 100 per cent coverage because no child from nine months to five years in the FCT will be left out.
The secretary stated that certified health workers have been engaged and trained to conduct the immunisation.
“The FCT Minister, Alhaji Musa Bello, gives health a high priority as he has already released the counterpart funding for the exercise.
“For the fact that we didn’t meet the target in 2015 campaign has made FCT to have pockets of cases of measles in some parts of the territory and we will not allow such to happen this time around.
“We have mapped out our strategies to ensure that every child in the identified settlements including IDPs and nomadic is immunised,” she said.
Pam tasked the media to help in mobilising parents and caregivers to bring out their kids for the vaccination. (NAN)
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Edited by Muhammad Suleiman Tola