Kano – Kano State
Government has signed a
Memorandum of
Understanding with
Dangote and Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundations
for the revitalisation of
routine immunisation and
other primary healthcare
services, an official said.
Dr Shehu Abdullahi, the
Executive Secretary, Kano
State Primary Health Care
Management Board, made
the plan known in Kano
on Monday at the
inauguration of the Kano
State Implementation
Training for 2013
Integrated Measles
Campaign.
The secretary said that the
state had recorded 200
deaths from 8,000 cases of
measles since 2012.
He said that 80 per cent of
those affected, aged
between 0 to 59 months,
were not immunised
against the disease.
, “Measles is one of the
childhood killer diseases,
which can be prevented
through immunisation,’’
Abdullahi said,
He said it was unfortunate
that parents and
caregivers of the affected
children did not make
them available for
immunisation and as such
exposed them to the
disease.
He said that the training
for Local Immunisation
Officers, State Technical
Facilitators and Local
Government Facilitators
was aimed at addressing
the challenges facing
immunisation in Kano
State.
Abdullahi said halting the
spread of the wild polio
virus, particularly, posed
enormous challenges but
gave an assurance that the
government was poised to
meet the challenges.
Abdullahi commended
Kano State development
partners for their support
toward the success of
healthcare services in the
state. (NAN)