Following the outbreak of diseases in some parts of the country, the Taraba State Primary Health Care Development Agency (TSPHCDA) on Friday said it was set to conduct mass vaccination campaign against Measles and Meningitis for 639,713 children in the state.
Executive Secretary of the Agency, Aminu Hassan Jauro, disclosed this to journalists at the opening of media orientation meeting in Jalingo ahead of the commencement of the campaign.
Hassan said that over three million children under the age of five years die from yellow fever, meningitis and measles while ten in every one hundred children die from vaccine-preventable diseases annually across the globe.
Hassan, who stressed that both Measles and Meningitis are killer diseases, with children being the most vulnerable to infection, urged the people to present their children under the ages of five years at the fixed and temporary fixed posts for vaccination.
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“Measles and meningitis remain a major cause of death for millions of children annually.
“To be fully protected, it is important that children who are at least nine months old receive measles immunization during the campaign,” he said.
“When a child shows signs of measles such as high fever, redness of eyes, cough, running nose and rash, or symptoms of meningitis such as high fever, persistent headache, stiffness of the neck, vomiting, drowsiness, lack of appetite and sensitivity to light, take the child to the nearest health facility without delay,” he urged parents.
The exercise, according to Hassan, was to cover the 16 local government areas in the state and would hold between 16th and 23rd of November at the primary Health Care facilities throughout the state.
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