Jigawa to vaccinate over 1.5m children against Polio

Jigawa State Primary Health Care Development Agency (JSPHDA) has announced plans to vaccinate implicit 1.5 cardinal children successful Jigawa State arsenic portion of a nationwide polio immunisation run scheduled to tally from Saturday, March 28, to Friday, April 2, 2026.

State Health Promotion Officer, Sani Yusuf, disclosed this during a media dialog organised by JSPHDA successful collaboration with UNICEF connected Monday.

He emphasised that the occurrence of the workout mostly depends connected the practice of parents and caregivers, urging them to marque their children disposable for the vaccination teams.

He explained that the run program includes DOPV (Direct Oral Polio Vaccination) connected Thursday and Friday, house-to-house vaccination from Saturday to Tuesday, and mop-up activities connected Wednesday and Thursday, aimed astatine covering implicit 95 per cent of children successful the state.

UNICEF Jigawa State Team Leader, Jibril Shu’aibu, said the campaign, which volition tally crossed selected states successful Nigeria, is aimed astatine sustaining efforts to destruct the remaining traces of the poliovirus and forestall its resurgence among children nether the property of five.

He added that the vaccination would beryllium cond...