Immunization needs community leaders participation for success-Health Educator
Poor response has been recorded at the conclusion of a four day immunisation programme in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The Health Educator and Social Mobilisation Officer of the locality, Lilian Oyetayo says the government should always engage community leaders for rural immunisation campaigns. Oyetayo said this in Bwari , while speaking on the 2018 December Polio Outbreak Response, being organised between December 15 and 18. She said that the input of the community process would particularly promote the inclusive participation of all stakeholders. Oyetayo, however, decried poor level of compliance and participation by the residents of Tudun-Rugan community in the polio response activity, which had somewhat frustrated the efforts of health officials to effectively carry out anti-polio immunisation in the neighbourhood. The Chief Imam of Sabongari Central Mosque in Bwari, Ibrahim Yusuf said that it ignorance is the residents of the community t...