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WHO, UNICEF rate Osun high on polio eradication

David Adenekan
David Adenekan
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Osun State Task-Force Committee  on Immunization has disclosed that the state’s health care performance indices on polio eradication has been rated higher above many other states in Nigeria by the World Health Organisation, WHO, and United Nation For Children Educational Fund, UNICEF.

According to the committee, the available result, has shown that Osun State came second on Smart Survey by scoring 97% .

Osun Immunization Task-Force Committee led by the Executive Secretary, Osun Primary Health Care Board, Dr Oluwole Fabiyi, made the disclosure in Osogbo while briefing the Secretary to the State Government of Osun, Prince Oluwole Oyebamiji, about the successes and challenges encountered by the committee.

The Task-Force Committee on Immunization further said that Osun had become a pace-setter in qualitative health care service delivery and in the fight against any preventable diseases.

The committee therefore disclosed that arrangement for another round of routine immunisation for children in all the nooks and cranny of Osun had kicked off on Saturday.

He noted that the four-day planned routine immunization would be an Oral Polio Vaccination, OPV, for the children between the ages of  zero to five and the vaccination was to guide against Poliomyelitis.

The committee also applauded Governor Adegboyega Oyetola for the new approved salary structure for health workers in the state and other support given to Osun Primary Health Care Board in carrying out its mandate which were said to be yielding positive results.

They however pledged to be more dedicated and committed to the assignment in making Osun a Polio-free state and appealed for more government support, especially in their area of challenges which included funding.

In his response, the Secretary to the State Government, Prince Oluwole Oyebamiji, hinted that Governor Oyetola would leave no stone unturned in the health sector, noting that the health and security of the people of the state were paramount in the mind of Governor Oyetola.

Prince Oyebamiji reiterated the efforts of the present administration in ensuring that 332 Primary Health Centres were rehabilitated across all wards in the state in order to improve the health status of the people .

He however assured the Osun Task-Force on Immunization on the State Government’s readiness to give them the needed support to fulfill their mandate and desired success.

Highlight of the meeting was the presentation of the Polio coverage data as they affect each of the local government in the state.

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