A total of 453 cases of rejection had been recorded in the last two days in the ongoing 10th round of polio immunisation in Illela Local Government Area of Sokoto State, an official has said.
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The Director of Health of the local government, Hajiya Amina Jibril, disclosed this on Monday in Illela while briefing a team of Journalists monitoring the exercise.
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"These cases were recorded between Saturday and Sunday in 347 households across the area.
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" Over sixty per cent of these rejections have been resolved and all the children hitherto missed, had been fully immunised," she said.
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Jibril also said over 46 ,000 eligible children between zero to five years, are being targeted across the local government during the four-day exercise.
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According to her, about 60% of the targeted children have been immunised so far, since the exercise began on Saturday.
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"We are also hopeful that the exercise would record about 95 per cent success by Tuesday, "We have also planned a mop up exercise between Saturday to Tuesday next week to cover all the children who will expectedly be missed," she added.
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Jibril disclosed that the state government had provided 115,520 doses of the polio vaccines to the local government, adding that 492 health personnel were administering the vaccine in 11 wards of the area.
Wow! It's very funny how people can reject great things like this. And this same people accept terrible things to their body!