The rate of routine polio vaccination in Adamawa State has risen to 67 per cent.
This
is a huge improvement on what used to be the case, according to the
Technical Assistant on Immunization for the state, Dr John Sabo who said
in a media interaction in Yola, that it used to be 38 percent.
Adamawa
State, like the rest of Nigeria is currently looking to being be
certified polio free. Nigeria in 2012 accounted for more than half of
polio cases globally but it made gains and on July 24, 2016 the country
marked two years without a case, only for the story to change not long
afterwards, on August 11 2016, when the Federal Government reported that
two children had been paralyzed by the polio virus in Borno, a state
within the same Northeast region as Adamawa.
The
Adamawa vaccination technical official who spoke in view of the World
Polio Day scheduled for October 24, said the state was able to record
high success with vaccination after deliberate steps that enhanced
access to otherwise hard to reach areas, and assured of yet further
efforts to increase the reach.
Success
with anti-polio vaccination would certainly also have been helped by
receding insurgency activities in recent times, prompting a marked
departure from when seven local government areas: Madagali, Michika,
Maiha, Mubi North, Mubi South, Hong and Gombi were in the grip of the
Boko Haram elements.
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