The InfoStride Forum

 Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has declared that his administration would not relent in its efforts until all diseases that could pose threat to the lives of the children in the state are kicked out.

The governor made this declaration at the flag off of another round of National Immunization Plus Days (NIPDs) at the Ibadan North-West Local Government Council, Onireke, Ibadan at the week-end.

He also said that his government would continue to mobilize resources for effective, efficient and accessible immunization services in all the nooks and crannies of the state.

To demonstrate his government's seriousness in making the state polio-free, Governor Ajimobi directed all his special advisers, senior special assistants and special assistants to commence the monitoring of immunization towards ensuring the well-being of the citizenry.

He said that government was looking beyond the campaign strategy to strengthen the routine immunization services to reduce child morbidity and mortality in the state.

The governor called on all stakeholders and development partners to continue to collaborate with government in achieving this goal.

He pointed out that his administration had entered a "new phase of rapprochement, networking and interfacing'' with development partners and organizations for the people of the state, especially the children who must be protected from polio and other child killer diseases.

Governor Ajimobi said that the immunization exercise was being replicated by council chairmen in all the remaining local government headquarters to demonstrate the needed commitment and to generate mass mobilization to ensure that immunization and other essential health care services got to every child.

He reiterated his administration's commitment to transforming the health care service in the state as it had commenced the distribution of N200 million essential drugs to hospitals and primary health care facilities in the state as the government had also commenced the recruitment of health workers for general hospitals in the state.

In his address, the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Muyiwa Gbadegesin said that the present administration had set another pace in the march towards transforming the health care delivery service in the state.

The commissioner said that the state had been polio free in the last four years, stressing that the regular immunization exercise was aimed at sustaining the trend.