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Only in Nasarawa local government council alone, no fewer than 426,813 children, out of this year’s 476,115 target population for the Integrated Immunisation campaign, have been immunised. The Nation conducted a post-immunisation investigation in Kano and can authoritatively report that this year’s immunisation coverage and accessibility in Kano has beaten the records of all previous exercises. Kano has an inconsistent history with vaccination, where resistance was high in the past due to several factors. But with the help of development partners like the Gates Foundation, the state has overcome its vaccine diffidence, hitting 90 percent immunisation record this year. The Nation was in several local government areas of the state. In Nasarawa local government area, the Primary Health Care Centre Coordinator, Abbah Ahmad, said the 2025 coverage is 90 percent. Read Also: Kano partners Fed Govt to boost education through school feeding initiative He said the national immunisation programme in Kano targeted 476,115 children, including those in the zero dose categories. And while some of the kids could be easily accessed in the metropolitan areas, majority of them were accessed in hidden remote areas using volunteers. “We achieved a lot. We have done Measles Rubella in 10 days, now we are doing mop-up. We have immunised 426,813 children which is 90 percent coverage,” he said. The Local Immunisation Officer, Aliyu Musa, who is responsible for the coordination of the immunisation team and creation of data to track defaulters, said they ensured no one was left behind. “What we are doing now is mop up by our team of sweepers who will go house to house and bring out children yet to receive the vaccines. And our strategy is having different units including health educators, the advocacy team, sweepers and the vaccinating team etc,” Musa said. The national flag-off of the campaign by the president’s wife, Oluremi Tinubu, targeted vaccinating 106 million children in the country to scale the uptake of Routine Immunisation (RI), which currently stands at 60 percent.
