Members of Makuntiri community in Bunkure Local Government Area of Kano State, on Friday gave reasons for chasing away health workers drafted to conduct polio immunization in the community.
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According to Bisi-Adegoke, the Bill Gates Foundation is the global partner of Rotary International and remains committed to the idea of raising the fund to tackle the last outbreak of polio in the country
This was contained in a statement jointly signed by the Deputy Director, Health Education, Kaduna State Primary Health Care Development Agency Hamza Ikara and the State Coordinator, Journalists Initiative on Immunisation Against Polio Lawal Dagara
He explained that the children would be immunised against polio and five other child-killer diseases during the five-day campaign.
The health educator said that a team of 658 trained ad hoc staff, including 482 vaccinators, would conduct the exercise
Kurawa said that the exercise had recorded a huge success in the area in spite of some resistance at Tudun Fulani which, he added, was promptly neutralised
He said the prize qualified the state for $1 million grant with $500,000 as its counterpart funding, under the twin track initiative of the Millennium Development Goals on healthcare