WORLD IMMUNIZATION WEEK: WE AIM TO RESTORE IMMUNIZATION PROGRESS LOST DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC — UNICEF

REPORTER: EMEFIENA OKONKWO

As World Immunization Week ends Sunday (April 30, 2023), Enugu State Government has restated its commitment to the sustenance of mass Immunization in the state for the survival and wellbeing of the populace, especially children and nursing mothers.

The Executive Secretary, Enugu State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. George Ugwu, stated this in Enugu while speaking on the World Immunization Week.

Dr. Ugwu noted that through collaboration with the state’s Oversea Development Partners, Immunization coverage as well as provision of facilities that enabled Immunization had been enhanced.

Also, the Officer in Charge of UNICEF, Enugu Field Office, Dr. Olusoji AKinyele, explained that the World Immunization Week “celebrates life-saving power of vaccines.”

Dr. AKinyele revealed that this year’s World Immunization Week celebrated under the theme, “The Big Catch-Up,” aims to vaccinate millions of children and restore Immunization progress lost during the COVID-19 pandemic.

He stressed that over 25,000,000 (twenty-five million) children missed at least one vaccination in 2021

World Immunization Week recognized annually, the last Week of April, brings the global Immunizatuon Community together to celebrate the life-saving power of vaccines.

EDITED BY CHUKWUBUIKE MADU