Wife of Enugu State Governor, Mrs Monica Ugwuanyi, has urged mothers to ensure infants complete all routine immunisations to prevent child-killer diseases.
Ugwuanyi gave the advice on Tuesday while flagging-off the National Immunisation Plus Days (NIPDs) in Ibagwa Aka Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC) in Igboeze South council area near Nsukka in Enugu State.
She called on mothers to present infants immunisation cards for immunisation teams to mark them regularly and ensure that their child or ward do not miss any routine immunisation meant to check the menace of child-killer diseases.
The governor’s wife assured that the state government was committed to 100 per cent immunisation coverage especially on polio.
Ugwuanyi also called on mothers to improve their personal and home hygiene levels to be able to prevent Lassa fever and other communicable diseases.
“You must ensure that your homes are kept clean always; while all your cooked food and food stuffs are properly covered against rodents.
“Then, you must observe the universal hand washing habits especially when you come back to your home or want to feed your baby.
Speaking further, she said “All plates used for meals must be washed or re-washed before using them to dish your meal and that of your baby.
She maintained that the current dreaded diseases of Lass fever and corona virus have close symptoms and prevention method; which dwells on personal and environmental hygiene.
Earlier, in an address, the state Commissioner for Health, Prof. Anthony Ugochukwu, said that it had been 11 years now the state had not recorded any polio case due to the commitment of the statd government.
“We are grateful to Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for his strides to reposition healthcare and routine immunization for the benefit of the people especially rural dwellers,’’ Ugochukwu, who was represented by Dr George Ugwu, Executive Secretary of Enugu State Primary Healthcare Centre Development Agency (ENS-PHCDA), said.
Speaking, Dr George Ugwu, Executive Secretary of ENS-PHCDA, said that the NIPDs polio immunisation was targeting no fewer than 1,050,000 children between the ages of 0 and 5 years.
Ugwu noted that the four days exercise, which started on Feb. 15, would end on Feb. 18.
He said that the exercise had a total of 2,834 trained immunization teams covering the entire states and with special teams trained to cover hard to reach areas.
“We want to ensure that we achieve more than 100 per cent coverage in this current statewide polio immunisation” he said.
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