‘To sustain Nigeria’s polio-free status, children should be vaccinated at home’ - Healthwise

A Professor of Human Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Calabar, Cross River State, Henrietta Ene-Obong, says there is need for health workers to visit homes in the rural areas to ensure that children receive routine immunisation if Nigeria must sustain her polio-free status.

She said, “Health workers should visit homes in the rural communities to ensure that children do not miss their routine immunisation. “Water should be provided at the health centres and in the communities so that women and healthcare workers can wash their hands and maintain good hygiene.” The nutritionist further said, “We need to continue with the polio campaign because if we now say because we have been certified free and relent, we may go back to where we started.

“Women should be empowered to do that by sensitisation and be made to know the importance of immunising their children against polio and other childhood vaccine-preventable diseases.”

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