Ife East LGC immunises 44,100 children against measles

Ife East LGC immunises 44,100 children against measles
By Dorcas Elusogbon
Immunisation
Ile-Ife (Osun), March 13, 2018 (NAN) The Ife East Local Government Council of Osun says it has immunised 44,100 children against measles during this year’s first round of National Immunisation Days.
Mrs Foluke Olawoyin, the Local Immunisation Officer (LIO) in the area, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ile-Ife on Tuesday that the children were aged between nine months and five years.
She said that 10 electoral wards were covered within 12 days of the programme.
Olawoyin said that government had sensitised parents and care givers on the importance of the programme through advertisement on both broadcast and print media.
She said government had also made provision for parents whose babies were yet to be immunised to do so in government healthcare centres.
Olawoyin said the council was also administering other vaccines on children like pentavalent, hepatitis, yellow fever, poliomyelitis and Tetanus Toxoid (TT), among others.
She added that the vaccines are free, safe and have no adverse effect children.
Olawoyin, therefore, advised nursing mothers to always cooperate with the government by immunising their children to protect them from silent killer diseases. (NAN)
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Edited by Ali Inuwa/Muhammad Suleiman Tola