As part of effort to end polio in Warri South Council Area, Chairman of the council, Dr Michael Tidi on Thursday vowed to take the polio vaccine campaigns to all the nook and cranny of the council.
Tidi made this vow in his office when the Executive Secretary, Primary Healthcare Development Agency for Warri South Local Government Council, Dr. Tosan Sagay, and the Local Immunization Officer, Mrs Roseline Wilki, paid him a visit.
Dr Tidi assured Dr Sagay of the council’s support stressing that the state government under the administration of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, has mandated that the polio campaigns should be taken to doorstep of the down trodden in the society.
Tidi advised that communities needed to be involved in the campaigns so as to create more awareness on the benefit of taking the polio vaccines.
On the activities of some church leaders who were not in full support of the vaccine, the Warri South council chairman said government needed to step up campaigns to wither down churches resistance to the vaccine.
Earlier, Dr Sagay told the council chairman that plans were already in place to flag off it’s polio campaign programme on Saturday 24 of April 2021.
Dr Tosan, however, solicited for the support of the council chairman for the smooth take off of the campaigns, stressing that they would need security in some areas they would be visiting.
She said they were ready to carry out massive sensitization campaign to enlighten the people of the council on the need to take the polio vaccines.
She said some of the initial challenges they faced in the past were the non cooperation of some primary school teachers who did not allow the health officials to administer the vaccines on the children.
She added that even some religious leaders in the council did not encourage their members to allow their children get vaccinated.
