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Kogi seeks monarchs’ support to stop polio

By Ibrahim Obansa, Lokoja
23 January 2020   |   3:25 am
Kogi State Government has solicited the support of traditional rulers and other stakeholders for effective polio vaccination in the state.

Kogi State Government has solicited the support of traditional rulers and other stakeholders for effective polio vaccination in the state.

The Executive Director of Kogi State Primary Health Care Development Agency (KSPHCDA), Dr. Abubakar Yakubu, made the call during an advocacy visit to the Attah of Igala, Dr. Michael Ameh-Oboni II, at his palace yesterday in Idah Council.

Yakubu appreciated the roles the traditional rulers in ensuring that people were well sensitised to participate in all the past routine immunisations in the state.He noted that they were in the palace in respect of the Fractional Inactivated Polio Vaccine (FIPV) from January 21 to 26 in the nine councils of Kogi East.

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