By Tahir Mohammed Dutse
No fewer than 153,239 households were immunized against the dreaded illness of Cerebro Spinal Meningitis, (CSM) during the six days CSM Vaccination Exercise conducted by Sule- Tankarkar PHC Health Officials, the Council’s PHC Manager, Mal. Usman Sule- Tankarkar has disclosed.
Briefing media team on Monitoring CSM Vaccination in the area, Mal. Usman further said the LG had received 890 doses of CSM Vaccination from the Jigawa State Ministry of Health that is expected to vaccinate 153,239 members of the LG.
According to him despite hiccups here and there with regard to late arrival of vaccination kids, from the state Ministry of Health, couple with poor logistics on the side of officials of Sule-Tankarkar Council, they were able to breakthrough with the least logistics we have received from the Ministries of Health and the Local government.
The PHC Manager attributed the success of the exercise on advocacy, public enlightenment with the support of traditional, community leader’s as well staffer’s of PHC worker’s, and cooperation of Sule- Tankarkar Community.
” I am pleased to inform you that we haven’t record any lost of lives from the emergence of CSM outbreak in our domain up to the time of the six days immunization exercise.
” I want emphasize that the exercise went on smoothly through active advocacy, community mobilization, and awareness on the importance of CSM Vaccination as part of preventive measures against killer disease’s to health development”
Earlier the Sule- Tankarkar Local Government Council Chairman, Alh. Sale Ahmed Danzomo attributed the outbreak of CSM menace in his council to the influx of people from neiboring Niger Republic as the council is boardered with Niger Republic.
“When we were told of CSM outbreak, we quickly swing into action through provision of preventive measures such as supporting our health units with emergency aids in form of provision of adequate medication, among other logistics as we do equip our health department with monthly or quarterly medical needs”
Recalled that Sule- Tankarkar Local Government Council was amongst the Six council’s namely Babura, Gumel, Gagarawa, Maigatari, and Ringim that were engulf by Cerebro Spinal Meningitis, CSM early last month in jigawa state, a situation which prompted the attention and engagement of the Officials of the State Ministry of Health to swing into action in rendering prompt medical services to contain.
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