KWSG COMMENCES SECOND ROUND IMMUNIZATION OF 238,000 CHILDREN

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The Kwara State Government, through the Kwara State Primary Health Care Development Agency, in collaboration with Development Partners, has commenced the second round of routine immunization exercise of 238,000 children across the state, saying that this is to further strengthen and scale up health services, particularly to hard to reach, underserved and zero dose children. 

The exercise comprises the second round of the Big Catch-up vaccination campaigns planned for   Ifelodun, Baruten and Ilorin East Local Government Areas (LGAs), which started yesterday, while the Local Immunization Plus Days is planned for implementation in the remaining 13 LGAs, which is slated for Tuesday 11th - Sunday 16th February, 2025.

The Executive Secretary, Kwara State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Professor Nusirat  Elelu, stated this today in her office, explaining that the Local Immunization Plus Days and the Big Catch up are being implemented to ramp up immunization coverage, rapidly decrease zero dose and partially immunized children so as to increase population immunity through vaccinations.

Prof. Elelu stressed that immunization is one of the most successful and cost-effective health interventions of all times, adding that it has prevented millions of deaths and ill health every year, thus, reducing morbidity and mortality across the world in a safe and cost-effective manner.  

She noted that the intensification exercise will adopt an integrated approach because the combination of vaccines with other health interventions such as vitamin A supplementation helps to reduce the likelihood of children dying from most of the childhood killer diseases.

While commending the Governor, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq for his enormous support to the Agency, the Executive Secretary, added that the Governor has demonstrated firm belief and commitment to both routine and supplemental immunization programme by providing an enabling environment as well as making funds available for implementation of immunization campaigns, revealing that the support given to the Agency last year enabled the health workers to penetrate underserved and hard to reach areas with immunization and other essential health services.

Prof. Elelu called on all stakeholders, service providers, community leaders, especially, fathers, mothers and other caregivers, to ensure that their children are immunized during this period. 

While further reiterating that the State Government will continue to work with partners such as World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund and World Bank, to ensure adequate health care service delivery in Kwara State. 

The routine immunization intensification targets about 160,000 children while the big catch up campaign targets about 78,000 children.


Alade Opeyemi,
Press Secretary,
KWSPHCDA.
0803 813 3813

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