The Borno Government state government has announced that it has vaccinated 1.6 million children against measles in the past three weeks.
According to a briefing with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) the state commissioner for Health, Dr Haruna Mshelia said that the children were immunised under the first and second phase of the exercise.
Mshelia said that the first phase of the exercise took place in Borno South senatorial district and four local government areas of the central zone.
He further disclosed that the first phase exercise recorded 92 per cent coverage, while that the second phase of the immunization exercise was conducted in the northern part of the state and the remaining four local governments of the central senatorial district.
“Collation of coverage in the second phase is on-going due to accessibility issues.’’ Mshelia said.
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In a maiden cholera immunisation exercise, the state government had also vaccinated about one million residents.
More than 950,000 doses of oral cholera vaccines were administered to people to contain outbreak of the disease in the state in the past three months.
Children above one-year of age and adults in Maiduguri, Konduga, Jere, Monguno and Dikwa local government areas where likewise given oral cholera vaccines.
Borno state government in partnership with World Health Organisation (WHO) and other humanitarian partners beef up activities and successfully were able to control the outbreak.
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