The number of unvaccinated children in Kano, Jigawa and Katsina accounts for about 40 per cent of the total unvaccinated children in Nigeria.
mother, Rahama Husseini, could not understand why her newborn could not receive the first dose of vaccine at the Hotoro Primary Healthcare Centre in Nasarawa Local Government Area of
The majority of those children did not get the appropriate vaccines at the right time, mainly because the cold chain for vaccine storage at the facility had broken for several years, PREMIUM TIMES found out. Maryam Ibrahim gave birth to her baby in April. She was told to come back to the hospital several days later for her child to be vaccinated. Another mother of a three-month-old baby, born on 1st April at the Hotoro PHC, said she had to come back to the facility days later before the newborn was given the first dose of vaccination.
“This is closer to about 40 per cent of the total unimmunised children in Nigeria. Over 300,000 of those children are in Kano State, representing 50 per cent of the three states under the UNICEF Kano Office. This situation is unacceptable and should be reversed urgently,” the organisation warmed in one of its recent statements in Kano.
“When children are fully vaccinated from the first visit to the sixth on routine immunisation, they will be protected from Tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, hepatitis B, Pneumonia, measles, Diarrhoea, meningitis, Yellow fever and others,” Mr shehu said.
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