Plateau begins measles immunisation campaign Dec. 14

The Plateau Government will commence its statewide measles immunisation campaign on Monday, Dec. 14, according to Mr Livinus Miapkwap, Executive Secretary, Primary Health Care Board (PHC).

Miapkwap disclosed this on Friday in Jos during a one-day workshop on Introduction to Measles Vaccines II, organised by the Federal Primary Health Care Development Board.

Miapkwap said that the Federal and Plateau governments were working assiduously toward controlling and eradicating measles considered one of the deadly childhood killer disease.

“The routine measles immunisation campaign is government’s deliberate effort to protect the lives of children in Plateau.

“This government desires that none of its citizens should die from measles. We want everyone, especially our children, to live healthy lives,” he said.

Miapkwap tasked the participants of the workshop to deliberate on how best to execute the campaign to ensure that no child was left without a dose of the vaccine which had been certified to be safe and reliable.

Mrs Jerisha Daniel, an educaion officer in the PHC, said that the workshop was aimed at creating public awareness for the one-week measles immunisation campaign.

Daniel said that the state government was ready to execute the campaign having stocked all the PHC facilities across the state with the vaccines in readiness for administration.

She called on parents, guardians, religious leaders and traditional rulers to educate their wards on the benefits of the campaign.

“Health is wealth; we must do all we can towards living a healthy life so as to contribute our quota to the growth of the state and the nation,” she said.