Polio immunization exercise records huge success in Adamawa, says parents

From: Umar Dankano, Yola

As the National Immunization Plus Days (NIPDs) entered its third day, parents and guardians have expressed gratitude to the government and its development partners for mobilizing the necessary resource.

A visit by this reporter to Primary Health Care Centre wuro jabbe in Yola South local government area in Adamawa state on Monday was greeted with large turn out of parents especially nursing mothers with a view to ensure that their wards to receive oral polio vaccines being administered at the facility free of charge.

Answering questions from journalists on the exercise, a mother, Fatima Mohammad said she got the news of the immunization exercise through her husband who advised her to go to the hospital for their daughter to receive the vaccine.

Mohammad commended the community mobilizers for a job well done in the sensitization drive which she said has changed the myth about the efficacy of the immunization to the children in their communities.

Another parent,Abdullahi Suleiman wuro jabbe confessed that the immunization exercise was apt and impactful to the social and mental health of the children, noting that all his other two children have been receiving immunization as at when due.