The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has expressed its readiness to vaccinate a total of 1,165,981 children under the age of five in 2,837 communities across the nation’s territory against poliovirus.
The Mandate Secretary, Health and Human Services, Abubakar Tafida, disclosed this while speaking at the first meeting of the FCT Taskforce on the Polio Eradication Initiative and Routine Immunization on Thursday.
Mr. Tafida said the exercise would be done between January 22 and 26, adding that the secretariat would deploy 1,639 health officials to ensure a hitch-free vaccination exercise.
He further stated that the secretariat would deploy 1,639 health officials to ensure a hitch-free vaccination exercise..
These were contained in a statement issued by the Special Assistant to the FCT Minister of State, Austine Elemue.
The statement, titled, ‘Aliyu moves to strengthen immunization structure in FCT’, read, “The Health and Human secretariat is set to deploy 1,639 teams in 4 days starting from January 22 to vaccinate 1165981 children under the age of five in 2,837 communities across the territory.
“We, therefore, charged participants to identify numerous challenges facing the immunization landscape at the FCT area council and community levels with a view to finding solutions to those challenges.
“Recall that in 2015, Mr President personally signed the reviewed Abuja Commitments document on behalf of the Federation while the Chairman, Governors’ Forum signed on behalf of the 36 States Governors and the Minister of FCT to ensure a Polio free Nation with clear responsibilities for each tier of government,” the statement reads.
So far, at least 27 states in Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have reported 395 cases of Circulating Mutant Poliovirus Type 2.
