Ogun Flags Off Measles Vaccination Campaign
The Ogun state government says it will not relent in its efforts at eradicating measles through the vaccination of children against the deadly disease.
Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, represented by his Deputy, Chief (Mrs.) Yetunde Onanuga, stated this at the flag Off ceremony of the 2018 Measles Vaccination Campaign Held at the Ojowo Local Council Development Area Secretariat.
He said the state government in collaboration with the Federal government and partners in the health sector had put in place necessary measure at ensuring prompt and efficient health care service delivery, imploring parents and guardians to accept the measles vaccines to be administered on their children and wards to boost their immunity.
“Government at the Federal and state levels are putting in place all these measures to ensure prompt and efficient health care services, let me implore parents especially our mothers and care givers to accept this measles vaccines to be administered on their children and wards so as to boost and improve their immunity and prevent them from being infected,” Amosun said.
On his part, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Babatunde Ipaye, said intervention such as the vaccination exercise, was deliberately designed to impact directly on the overall health of the citizenry.
He stated that in order to ensure that all eligible children were captured in the exercise, the State had trained 11,168 health workers to provide services in all the 20 local government and 37 local council development areas and was supported by the World Health Organisation (WHO) with 80 Monitors to guarantee quality service delivery.
Also speaking, the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Dr. Nofiu Aigoro, said government had done a lot to ensure a successful measles campaign in the State, admonishing all to mobilize people in their various communities to benefit from the programme while it lasted.
In their separate remarks, the State Coordinator, World Health Organisation, Dr. Mejebi Phillips and the representative, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Hajia Binta Kura, lauded the State government efforts towards the vaccination exercise , urging mothers to inform others in their various local communities so as to ensure that no child was left behind.
In his welcome address, the Chairman, Ijebu East Local Council Development Area, Honorable Adebayo Osikomaiya, advised the people to be wary of measles as it was a deadly disease, but it could be controlled through vaccination.
