According to world health organization (WHO) polio is a child killer disease that affects mostly children below the age of 16. It has been noted in recent years that the majority of those who contracted polio virus are children from rural areas, due to poor upbringing and poverty that tripled their parents and the entire communities in which they live. Meanwhile, the federal ministry of health is making a tremendous effort in ensuring house-to-house campaign and awareness on the dangers cause by the disease. However, the ministry is organizing programs of increasing awareness to rural communities on the presentation of the disease. More after, the ministry has embarked on monthly vaccination to curtail the rate of spread of the virus especially among children in urban and rural communities.
However, communities at all levels have been called upon to avoid anything capable of jeopardizing their health and show out any information contrary to the one given to them by a health worker.
Likewise, traditional rulers have setup committees to them self at the level of awareness on the polio disease so as to ensure a health living among their subjects.
Government at all levels have also been using to come up with how appropriately eradicate the disease in the communities and to achieve the target goal of United Nations children fund (UNICEF).
Therefore, polio virus has remained the order of the day especially in the rural settlement. There is need for federal and state ministries of health to come up with strategies of curtailing the speed of the viruses in all section of the communities. Health is the state of physical and mental well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, so the health of the humanities should be cared and promoted.
DEPARMENT OF MASS COMMUNICATION, UNIVERSITY OF MAIDUGURI, BORNO STATE, NIGERA.
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