Edu said this in an interview with Newsmen on Saturday in Calabar while commemorating the World Immunisation and Africa Vaccination Week.The Week, with its 2019 theme “Protected Together: Vaccine Work”, is celebrated in the last week of April with the aim of promoting the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against vaccine preventable diseases.
“Communal clashes like we have in Ukelle Community in Yala Local Government Area against a part of Ebonyi and the crisis in Abi Local Government Area are some of the clashes that have made immunisation coverage in these parts low.”We have too many hard to reach areas in Cross River, about 428; in an area like Belegete, you trek for 8 hours up and down mountains that are very steep, this makes it difficult to reach the people of these areas with vaccination.
She pointed out that her agency always find novel ways to ensure residents access the immunisation at all times. ”Last month we had the maternal and neo natal tetanus elimination immunization ; it was given to women between the ages of 15 and 49 years and 548,000 women were covered in Cross River. “We have a situation where we would have been declared a polio free nation but we are back struggling with polio just because of the insurgency and health workers could not go into particular areas in the North East and everything just turned upside down.
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