Polio: Edo to vaccinate children on May 7
The Edo State Primary Health Care Development Agency (ESPHCDA) has moved the second round of oral polio vaccination for children up to 59 months to May 7.
The health education officer of ESPHCDA, Irene Uabor, announced this in a statement on Wednesday in Benin.
“This is to inform the general public that the second round of oral polio vaccination for children between the age group of 0 and 59 months, that is, less than five years of age, earlier scheduled for May 7, will now hold between May 14 and May 17,” she said.
Mrs Uabor said that the exercise would now take place in all the 18 local government areas of the state.
She explained that health workers would be at strategic standpoints like churches, mosques and markets to administer the oral polio vaccines.
The health official, therefore, advised parents to allow the health workers to immunise their children in order to rid the state of the wild poliovirus.
(NAN)
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