he death of a child is a very painful and traumatic experience for parents, siblings, friends and family, believe it or not every minute a child under-5years old dies in Nigeria and every minute some family are in sorrow. What is more painful is that many of these deaths are preventable, so you can do something. Indeed according to the Paediatric Association of Nigeria- upto 22% of these deaths are vaccine preventable. www.ajol.info/index.php/njp/article/viewFile/80124/70388

So what can you do?
You can help advocate the use of immunization, when next you see a mother and her baby after greeting and asking after the welfare of the family the very next thing please ask the mother about her baby and immunization, ask how old the baby is and inform the mother about how many times the baby should have received immunization. I have attached an image of the schedule to guide us.

Many Mothers never immunize their children and surprisingly many mothers start but don't complete the Immunization. A mother is expected to vaccinate her child at Birth, 6weeks, 10weeks, 14weeks, 6months and 9months at the very least.

These simple actions can help save lives and prevent so much more despair

Who dey kill them ?

The Maths behind the 1minute 1-Under-5years death.

1. Every year about 800,000 under 5 die in Nigeria - www.dailytrust.com.ng/daily/index.php/health/53209-vaccination-a-gift-for-life
2. This means 2,191 under 5 die in 1day (800,000/365)
3. And so 91 Under 5 die every hour (2,191/24)
4. Finally an under 5 every minute (91/60)

There many sources for the 800,000 under-5 deaths and very little dispute on this if any, I only choose the above source, in the hope that the article Vaccination A Gift of Life will further give you impetus to do your little bit of Immunization advocacy and save lives. Thank you

I believe threads like these shd make it ti fp. Painfully, majority are preventable.