2.3 million children at risk of polio in Nigeria – UNICEF
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that nearly 2.3 million children in Nigeria have not received routine immunisation (zero dose), putting them at risk of polio outbreak. UNICEF’s Chief of Bauchi Field Office, Dr Nuzhat Rafique, disclosed this during an awareness road walk in Bauchi on Thursday to commemorate this year’s World Polio […]
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that nearly 2.3 million children in Nigeria have not received routine immunisation (zero dose), putting them at risk of polio outbreak.
UNICEF’s Chief of Bauchi Field Office, Dr Nuzhat Rafique, disclosed this during an awareness road walk in Bauchi on Thursday to commemorate this year’s World Polio Day.
According to her, out of this figure, about 22,000 children in Bauchi State have not received routine immunisation thereby risking a polio outbreak.
She said: “It is heartwarming to note that Bauchi has been free of wild polio virus since the last case in 2013; however, we are still contending with the variant form of the virus.’’
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Rafique said that despite the success, 2.3 million children in Nigeria and around 22,000 children in Bauchi State had not received routine immunisation.
She further said that child deaths and physical disabilities caused by polio could be banished from the world if the stakeholders continued to put all hands on deck to stop the outbreaks. (NAN)