Despite the current scare of alleged vaccination exercise in some schools around the country, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has stated that it will immunise 300,000 people against cholera in Borno.

This development was contained in the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA), Humanitarian Situation Report for the Month of September.


The report said the organisation in collaboration with other health development partners would also conduct another round of Oral Cholera Vaccination (ORV) exercise in the state.

It indicated that the immunisation exercise would be conducted at Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps and host communities of Damasak, Banki, Bama, Gamburu, Ngala and Pulka.

“For the first time in Nigeria; an Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) was carried out between September 18 and 22 to protect communities and prevent further spread of the disease. The first round campaign reached close to 850,000 people through combination of fixed and mobile strategies.

“The request for the additional vaccines is to be submitted to the International Coordination Group on Vaccines Provision pending the clearance and approval of the state and health authorities”, it noted.

The UN-OCHA report shows that 4,360 suspected or confirmed cholera cases and 60 related deaths were recorded in Borno in September.

It notes that humanitarian organisations had scale up activities to contain the outbreak in parts of Maiduguri, Jere, Dikwa, Monguno and Mafa local government areas.

To control the outbreak health, sanitation and hygiene actors established Cholera Treatment Centres (CTC) and Oral Re-hydration Points (ORP) in the affected communities.

According to the report, another key intervention to be conducted was the third round Seasonal Malaria Chemo-Prevention campaign. The exercise was targets children under the age of five in Maiduguri, Konduga, Monguno, Jere and Mafa local government councils.

OCHA also disclosed that the Mobile Hard-To-Reach teams were increased to 35 as against 24, to enhance health care elivery in Yobe.

It noted that the measure was to enhance access to healthcare services in remote and security compromised communities at Gujba, Gulani, Geidam, Yunusari, Tarmuwa, Karasuwa, Bade and Fika local government areas of Yobe State.

The report further showed that 13,000 children had so far benefited from consultations and treatments of minor ailments, 41,752 children de-wormed and 32,930 received Vitamin A supplement, since the deployment of the teams to the state.
While 59,080 children were screened of malnutrition; 41,542 reached with health promotion messages, 626 women received ante-natal care, 82 pre-natal care and 31 family planning consultations.

The UN agency revealed that proactive measures had been evolved to strengthen the Mental Health and Psycho-Social Support (MHPSS) response to provide appropriate referral pathways for individuals, groups or families in need of mental health support in the war ravaged region.

It added that WHO and other health partners are working with Nigerian mental health authorities to enhance clinical management of mental disorder through deployment of specialised mental health workers such as psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, pharmacological, non-pharmacological and psychologists.

According to OCHA, the Boko Haram insurgency caused humanitarian crisis with over 6.9 million people in need of quality healthcare services.

It explained that 5.9 million persons were targeted for support services while 5 million people reached with emergency health services this year in the Northeast.

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There is no vaccine scare. What we had is military scare.
Why don't the military go and administer the vaccines in Borno?

Nonsense

Op u get fever oh. What kinda heading is this?

Let the federal government keep deluding itself, polio,cholera, meningitis etc are mostly components of the north especially northeast and yet they pride themselves in shipping down they military to the east to conduct a simple exercise that health officials could easily conduct.

Let the military volunteer as usual, at least there is already a high concentration of them in borno so this shouldn't be an issue.

WHO is not a terrorist body
Nigerian Army are terrorists
terrorists don't immunize
Buhari is a terrorist
aisha is a shameless corrupt prostitute
kiss the truth

it is d military DAT is causing d pandemonium

Vaccines world over are not always trusted. I'm even more suspicious and doubtful of this so called cholera vaccine cos I haven't heard where a vaccine is made for a bacterial infection, they are usually done for viral infections. This has nothing to do with the Nigerian military. There are many people even in the western world( scientists and pharmacists inclusive) who believe vaccines unduly and dangerously expose people to infections and other undesirable highly damaging side effects. There are many documented cases of people esp children developing diseases for which they were taking vaccines for, sometimes almost immediately after taking the vaccine jabs. Any person interested in the history of vaccines and its their dangers can google them.I really wouldn't advise anybody to take any vaccine jab

As long as its not carried out by the army, there wont be any scare.

Administration of vaccine is not the problem. Its not just the job of the military

Waiting for the latest Ipob propaganda.
Maybe it will be Ebola virus this time around.

Nonsense, they should hand it to the military to do vaccination there oh...cuz Nigerian government made us to understand that it is the work of the military to carry out vaccination and not the health workers.

The child in the picture though

That WHO agent in that pic no take ham easy on that kid oh... haba! she wan break him jaw?

Quality20:
Vaccines world over are not always trusted. I'm even more suspicious and doubtful of this so called cholera vaccine cos I haven't heard where a vaccine is made for a bacterial infection, they are usually done for viral infections. This has nothing to do with the Nigerian military. There are many people even in the western world( scientists and pharmacists inclusive) who believe vaccines unduly and dangerously expose people to infections and other undesirable highly damaging side effects. I really wouldn't advise anybody to take any vaccine jab

Common man, they are a good number of vaccines that protect against deadly bacterial infections. Pneumonia, meningitis, Typhoid, etc, vaccination confers relative protection against these diseases

Thats where its needed most. and this is WHO not some bloody fools doing crocodile tears about.

WHY DIDN'T THEY ENGAGE THE MILITARY?

Why Africans continue to die is their own doing!

Good!... They rightfully deserve your vaccine.

Not attempting to vaccinate people you detest and hate and expect them to accept that.

Huuuu

Quality20:
Vaccines world over are not always trusted. I'm even more suspicious and doubtful of this so called cholera vaccine cos I haven't heard where a vaccine is made for a bacterial infection, they are usually done for viral infections. This has nothing to do with the Nigerian military. There are many people even in the western world( scientists and pharmacists inclusive) who believe vaccines unduly and dangerously expose people to infections and other undesirable highly damaging side effects. There are many documented cases of people esp children developing diseases for which they were taking vaccines for, sometimes almost immediately after taking the vaccine jabs. Any person interested in the history of vaccines and its their dangers can google them.I really wouldn't advise anybody to take any vaccine jab

It is very important not to attempt to write on such sensitive topics if you are not absolutely sure of the facts. There are several uninformed people that may ignorantly believe what you have just written here.

Basically, what a vaccine does is to indirectly make your body arm itself with protective agents known as antibodies. If at any anytime in the future your body is exposed to the actual infection, these antibodies will be able to fight off the infection, thereby preventing you from being sick.

Potentially, as such, vaccine can be created for any infectious disease, be it viral, bacterial, parasitic, etc. The question is, how probable? For example, malaria (parasitic) vaccine has been in the works for quite some time.

And they came to our peaceful healthy erosion ravaged land locked south east to vaccinate

remove the log in eyes First

They are not serious

They said fura nunu is so nutritious yet they suffer from malnutrition

Akpu no de cause polio
Akpu don't cause malnutrition

Proudly Easterner

At least, WHO does not have a history of terrorism

Quality20:
Vaccines world over are not always trusted. I'm even more suspicious and doubtful of this so called cholera vaccine cos I haven't heard where a vaccine is made for a bacterial infection, they are usually done for viral infections. This has nothing to do with the Nigerian military. There are many people even in the western world( scientists and pharmacists inclusive) who believe vaccines unduly and dangerously expose people to infections and other undesirable highly damaging side effects. There are many documented cases of people esp children developing diseases for which they were taking vaccines for, sometimes almost immediately after taking the vaccine jabs. Any person interested in the history of vaccines and its their dangers can google them.I really wouldn't advise anybody to take any vaccine jab

brother...

They will shout it will affect their children and breed handicaps round dey country