By Tunji Saliu
The Ekiti State Primary Health Care Development Agency has concluded arrangements to ensure 95% coverage of the forthcoming immunisation starting from October 5.
Towards actualizing the target, the Agency organised a Stakeholders Engagement to further sensitise them on the importance attached to the exercise.
The programme was attended by Health Educators, Area Education Officers, Community Based Organisations, Youth leaders and Market women across the sixteen local government areas of the state.
Others in attendance were the representatives of the muslim and christian communities, traditional rulers, members of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, as well as leaders of various ethnic groups, such as Hausa, Igbo and Ebira.
In his remarks, the Director General of EKSPHCDA, Dr Ayodele Seluwa, said that the Programme, tagged “Intergrated Meseals Campaign” was to educate participants, who would in turn mobilise their community people for the exercise.
He said that adequate arrangements had been made by the Agency to ensure that the set target of 95% coverage was achieved.
While soliciting for the support of relevant stakeholders in the state, the EKSPHCDA Director General urged them to ensure that their people make their children of age 9 months to 5 years available for the Immunisation.
Also speaking the representative of the United Nations Children Fund, (UNICEF) Mrs Yetunde Akinyosoye, urged the stakeholders to cooperate with the agency so that the exercise could be successful.
She commended Ekiti State for topping the performance chat in the last exercise, urging the people work hard and exceed the new target.
She equally tasked the community leaders to assist the agency in carrying out more awareness campaigns to the people of their various communities on the need for parents to make their eligible children available for the week-long vaccination.
Similarly, the chairman of the Association of Ekiti Traditional Chieftaincy Title Holders, who is also the Odofinyin of Iyin-Ekiti, Chief Simon Esan, commended the EKSPHCDA for organizing the stakeholders engagement and promised to spread the gospel across the State.
