By Danjuma Attah, Gombe
Akko Local Government Area of Gombe State was among other LGA’s that participated in marking the 2024 World Polio Day with a rally in Kumo town, the headquarters of the Area.
Our Correspondent who covered the world event in Kumo town, reports that Head of Department of the Council’s Primary Health Care Development, Alhaji Ahmed Abubakar Gale, said the rally was also to create awareness towards next Saturday’s house to house Polio vaccination in all parts of the Local Government.
The Polio campaign, which is sponsored by Rotary International in collaboration with the Gombe State chapter of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) witnessed officials of Akko Local Government Area administering the Polio vaccines to children at the Maternity Clinic in Kumo town.
According to Ahmed Gale, HOD Health, the fight to end Polio in Nigeria must be taken seriously by all stakeholders which Akko has always been in the lead.
He called on parents especially mothers to take advantage of the vaccination coming up on Saturday 02/11/2024 and bring out their children from zero to five years for the vaccination exercise.
The Secretary of the Council, Alhaji Adamu Abdullahi Kumo, commended Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, for creating a conducive environment for the smooth conduct of immunization exercises and the current Polio vaccination campaign.
He also commended the Akko Council Chairman, Mohammed Danladi Adamu, for ensuring adequate mobilization in the LGA while calling for the cooperation of all the people in the Area to ensure that no Polio case is detected in Akko LGA.
In her remarks shortly before administering the Polio doze to a child, the Councilor for Health in the Council, Hajiya Aishatu Mohammed, called on her women folk, particularly mothers, to cooperate with the health workers that will be coming to their communities.
The rally which was taken to different parts of Kumo town, witnessed youths and commercial motorcycle riders as well as officials of the Council. It commenced at the temporary LGA Secretariat and ended at the Kumo Maternity clinic where traditional and religious leaders also attended.
