Over eight hundred and sixty thousand children and women are to be vaccinated against measles and other communicable diseases in Ondo State.

The permanent secretary, Ondo State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr Francis Akanbiemu announced this in Akure while briefing newsmen on the integrated measles campaign scheduled for October, this year.

Dr Akanbiemu said the campaign against measles would go along with the regular antigens and other vaccines, especially the Covid-19 vaccine.

He explained that beneficiaries of the vaccinations were children under five, expectant mothers and breastfeeding women.

Dr Akanbiemu urged mothers to make themselves and their children available for the exercise while also calling on the general public to get vaccinated against coronavirus which he noted remained deadly.

Also speaking the Director, Disease Control, Ondo State Ministry of Health, Dr Victor Adefesoye hinted that the integrated measles campaign would run from October 20 to November 4 in all the eighteen local government areas of the state.

On his part, the Director of Community Health Services and Education, Dr Samuel Abiona appealed to religious leaders, school owners and community leaders to mobilize children as well as women in their care for the exercise.

Adebukola Bardi

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