Kicking Polio Out of Nigeria: Sub-Immunization Plus Days [Day 2]
Hello Steemians,
I made a post yesterday about the commencement of Sub-Immunization Plus Days (SIPDS) against polio (poliomyelitis) in Abuja, Nigeria.
The exercise went well and eligible children within the age of 0-5 years were immunized.
Today being Sunday, we got several eligible children in churches, some of them had already been immunized at home, those who didn't were given. We were able to immunize 80% of our target population, a slight decrease from the previous round of implementation.
How we were able to identify those children that had already been immunized at home.
During the immunization exercise, every child we vaccinated were marked with an indelible ink on their left little finger. Those markings are the best indicator that proves that they had been immunized.
Although polio vaccines doesn't have overdose, to prevent vaccine shortage and proper accountability, indelible ink marking is pivotal.
The challenges we had today.
Due to the outbreak of monkey pox virus in some states of the country, there was a claim in the eastern part of the country that children were being vaccinated with a vaccine containing monkey pox virus in schools by the military, this led to panic as we were been rejected in some churches despite all our efforts to explain to them that the vaccine we are giving has nothing to do with monkey pox. This lead to a decrease in our immunization target coverage.
Such churches were being reported to the Municipal Area Council for proper enlightenment.
Below are some photos taken by me at the scene of the exercise for day 2 (October 15, 2017):
(children class in churches)
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
-Jackie Robinson.
Humanity is everything.
Image source: [2]
The rest were captured and compressed with my Samsung Galaxy Note 4
Thanks to @camzy for the photo animation.
It always saddens me to see just how much Africa suffers daily. The world has African blood on its hands, how are they going to justify that to the God?
We're the cause of our own problems.
Who is spreading the rumour...?
Nigerians are wonderful indeed, firstly why would soldiers be sent for immunisation?
What do they know about health? 😂😂
Guy the thing just tire me o 😂
We couldn't cover upto 60% of our target population. Very very bad. Nigerians are wonderful. And we claim to be the most religious country in the world with churches and mosques everywhere. It's pathetic.