The Jega Local Government Area (LGA) in Kebbi will adopt measures to ensure total immunization of all children against polio in line with the newly launched Free-Torch campaign.
It is reported that UNICEF had adjudged the area is among the most critical areas where 19.2 per cent had missed immunization against the disease.
The Chairman of the LGA, Alhaji Yahaya Bawa, told newsmen last week that with 100 per cent increase in the allowances paid to vaccinators, additional efforts would be made to ensure that all polio is eradicated.
He said the council area had approved that vaccinators be paid N5,000 as against the N2,500 paid to them by the UNICEF while the financial allocation for the entire area had been increased from N800,000 to between N1.6 million and N2.2 million.
“The amount would be determined by how densely populated the location of children to be immunized and we would not be left behind in total eradication of the disease.
“We had an added advantage in the campaign to eradicate polio this year as the Federal Government recently launched the Free-Torch campaign to eliminate polio entirely this year”. (NAN)
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