By Bukola Badi
The Ondo State government says it will continue to invest in primary healthcare to ensure that the state retains its polio free status in the country.
The Commissioner for Health, Dr Banji Ajaka stated this in Akure while launching the September 2023 round of the National Immunisation Plus days scheduled to take place between Saturday, 30th September and Thursday, 5th October, 2023.
Dr Ajaka represented by the Permanent Secretary, Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr Francis Akanbiemu noted that Ondo State recorded huge success in previous immunisation plus days and had made necessary arrangements to make sure this edition was not different.
The commissioner urged mothers and caregivers to present their children from age zero to 5yrs for the oral polio vaccine and Vitamin A supplement, which would be taken to churches, mosques, schools, houses and other public places by health workers in all the eighteen local government areas of the state.
The wife of Ondo State Governor, Mrs Betty Anyawu-Akeredolu called on local government chairmen, religious leaders, traditional rulers and health workers to intensify mobilisation activities for this round of national immunisation plus days in Ondo State.
Representative of the World Health Organisation in Ondo State, Dr Dele Davies stressed the importance of immunisation to child development and advised mothers to make their babies available for the exercise.
Two mothers, Mrs Oladunni Ajayi and Mrs Bosede Ayomide whose babies were admitted for oral polio vaccine and vitamin A supplement thanked government for making child and maternal health a priority in Ondo State.
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