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Permanent secretary in charge of the Rivers State Primary Health Care Management Board, Dr. Agiriye Monima Harry, has expressed the hope that the state will be out of polio by the end of this year.
This, he said, follows the concerted efforts of the state primary health care board to eradicate the disease in the state in line with the New Rivers vision of the Gov Nyesom Wike administration.
Dr. Harry made this known while speaking with some media executives in his office shortly after the immunization campaign exercise against polio disease in the state by the primary health care board.
The permanent secretary further said that state government, through the primary health care management board, had put necessary mechanisms in place to ensure complete eradication of polio, even as he appealed to care givers to always make their wards available to be vaccinated against polio whenever immunization officials visit their homes.
He said the essence of the immunization exercise is to ensure all children between 0-5 months are vaccinated against polio, adding that the primary health care management board is determined to make the state free polio.
Dr. Harry however attributed the large turnout of parents for the just concluded polio immunization campaign to the massive public enlightenment campaign embarked on by the agency.
His words: “Public enlightenment campaigns were on the increase. More people were hired to do the work; there were no hitches of any kind during the exercise. The development, hence, awakened the consciousness of care givers to see reasons to immunize their children against polio disease.”
The permanent secretary while reiterating government’s commitment to making the state polio-free commended Governor Wike’s infrastructural development in the health sector, stressing that the governor had done creditably well on health, thus improving health care service delivery in the state.
