Ekiti To Vaccinate 320,000 Children Against Measles

No fewer than 320,000 children ages nine months and 59 months will be vaccinated by the Ekiti State Government under the integrated measles campaign from Oct. 20 to Oct. 26.

This was disclosed by Mrs Omolabake Ogundola, the Deputy State Immunisation Officer, Primary Health Care Agency (PHC)  in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday.

Ogundola said it was targeted at reducing infant mortality rate due to measles infection.

She also said that adults from 18 and above would also be vaccinated against COVID-19 infection during the campaign.

Ogundola urged parents, guardians and school owners to allow health workers in the state access to enable them vaccinate eligible children.

The PHC boss, said that government was strategising on how every eligible children in the state would be vaccinated irrespective of their locations.

She noted that such warranted the long time allotted to the exercise, while assuring that the exercise would be carried out across the 16 local government areas in the State.

The healthcare worker solicited the assistance of residents for the agency to record success in the exercise.

“The state government will be carrying out Integrated Measles Campaign in October. What this means is that, we will be combining measles vaccination with other routine vaccinations, such as COVID-19 and others,” she said.