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By Laraba Usman
Gombe State government has appealed to residents of the state to let their children immunised againts Poliomyelitis scheduled to commence on Friday.
Dr Musa Mustapha, Director disease control in the state Primary Health Care development Agency made the appeal in an interview with our correspondent in Gombe on Thursday.
He said the whole goal of the activity was to consolidate on the gains recorded in the last few years after the declaration of the World Health Organisation (WHO) that polio has been eradicated in Nigeria.
“To consolidate the gain and to ensure that eradication remained so that we don’t have a resurgence of the virus, and also reach out to the children who were partial immunised and those that were not immunised .
“I am appealing to parents to bring their children, make them available during the four days of National Immunisation Plus Days,” he said.
While urging religious, community and royal fathers to play a strategic role in mobilising people, he said no fewer than 900 children from 0 to five years months were targeted.