Jigawa council immunises 41,800 children against polio

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Buji Local Government Area of Jigawa State has immunised 41, 800 children against poliomyelitis between February 24 and 28.

The Manager, National Programme on Immunisation (NPI), Buji Local Government Area, Alhaji Abdulhammid Kudai, disclosed while addressing newsmen, in Dutse, on Thursday.

Kudai noted that parents had turned up en masse and presented their children for the immunisation in the recent exercise

He pledged that the council will not relent in its efforts to ensure that every child in the area is immunised against the wild virus.

The manager thanked traditional rulers and religious leaders in the area for their support to the officials of NPI.

Kudai advised those that did not present their children in the last round to please do so in the upcoming one.

He described the immunisation in Buji Local Government as successful and hitch free. (NAN)

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