Adamawa mobilises 1,685 teams for fresh Polio vaccination
Adamawa State has mobilised 1,685 teams of health personnel for a fresh polio vaccination targeting 1.2 million children. The teams, each comprising a vaccinator, a community sensitizer, and a recorder,
- From Onimisi Alao, Yola
Adamawa State has mobilised 1,685 teams of health personnel for a fresh polio vaccination targeting 1.2 million children.
The teams, each comprising a vaccinator, a community sensitizer, and a recorder, are to visit each of the 226 wards of the 21 local government areas of the state administering oral polio vaccination on children 0-59 months old.
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More than 1.2 million children are targeted in the vaccination exercise for which 1.4 million doses of vaccines are to be rolled out.
The March 2026 vaccination exercise to reinforce immunity of children against the wild polio virus, is scheduled for four days in the state, beginning from Sunday, March 29, to Wednesday, April 1.
The facts were disclosed in the state capital at the weekend during a media dialogue on the exercise as part of activities of the National immunization Plus Campaign supported in the state by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), in collaboration with the Adamawa State Primary Health Care Development Agency (ADSPHCDA).
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Chairman and Chief Executive of the agency, Dr Sulaiman Bashir, said the polio campaign remains necessary to be doubly sure that the polio virus does not affect anyone should it be brought from any country that still has the virus.
He said the vaccination campaign is designed to succeed as every household will be covered, adding that even after the four scheduled days, two further days will be declared so that any household not reached for any reason in the first four days will be taken care of.
"This is a unique exercise, the only one that takes us to every household in the state," Bashir said, stressing: "Every house will be reached, every house everywhere."
