Parents with children aged zero to twenty-three months have been advised to take their kids to vaccination sites to enable them to have access to childhood immunization, which encompasses vaccines for childhood diseases such as polio, yellow fever and measles, among others.
This was made public to reporters at a conference yesterday by the Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Agency, Faisal Shuaib, after he shared his plans to integrate the COVID-19 mass vaccination campaign with childhood immunization.
Recall that Shuaib had previously complained about the suspension of childhood immunisation, which his agency blamed the coronavirus pandemic for the outbreak of the circulating vaccine-derived polio.
Speaking to newsmen, he said during this phase of Covid-19 mass vaccination, the agency is planning to integrate the campaign with childhood immunisation and other primary health care services.
This suggests that alongside the Covid-19 vaccine, vaccines for children will also be made available making both adults and children in the country safe from disease outbreaks.
Speaking further he said as at yesterday, more than fourteen million people have gotten the first dose of the Covid 19 vaccine while over five point two million eligible Nigerians would have been fully vaccinated though the results would not be evenly distributed across all states of the federation.
Mentioning Nasarawa, Jigawa, FCT, Ogun and Kwara to be among the top 5 states whose citizens have been vaccinated, he said it is important to say that Jigawa and Lagos has vaccinated about 1.5 million people with the first dose, while the FCT, Nasarawa, Lagos and Delta are leading on second dose administration with more than 10 per cent of eligible populations in each of the states already vaccinated.
