Speaking at the meeting held at ASPHCDA office in Awka, the Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer, Anambra State Primary health Care Development Agency, Pharmacist Chisom Uchem, represented by the Director Community Health Services, and Chairman twenty-one Directors Primary Health Care, Anambra State, Dr Ngozi Okeke while explaining that the immunization exercise will take place at fixed or temporary posts, house to house and other designated points which include churches, Mosques, Schools, Markets, Village Square, Motor parks and wherever children are found, encouraged parents to endeavour to make sure that their children and wards are immunize against this deadly virus before the exercise elapsed.
Correspondent Emmanuel Okonkwo reports that participants at the meeting, including the Anambra State Coordinator, World Health Organization, Dr Mohammed Bonos, State Health Educator, Mrs Uju Onwuegbuzina, UNICEF Strategic Behaviour Communication Anambra State Facilitator, Dr Uju Eze, and other representatives of various groups and ministries, emphasized that the ongoing nationwide immunization exercise is Nigeria’s final chance to end polio transmissionhey, urged religious groups, non-governmental organizations and others, to prioritize effective execution of the exercise, ensuring that all children between the age of zero to fifty-nine months receive the Oral Polio Vaccine, regardless of their previous immunization status.
