District 9127 of Rotary International said it provided 10,000 poliomyelitis vaccines for the immunisation of 10,000 children under five years of age in Jos, Plateau State.

The District Zonal Coordinator, Dr Akinyola Komolafe, said on Thursday that the gesture was to commemorate the 2024 World Polio Day.

Mr Komolafe said that the day was to principally create awareness of the dangers posed by the disease and immunise children.

The coordinator said the sensitisation walk was to create awareness of the disease and to emphasise the importance of parents availing their children, especially those under five years of age, for routine immunisation.

He said the rotary was desirous to see that Nigeria had no case of poliomyelitis.

President, Jos Central, Vivian Abara, said that the theme for the 2024 World Polio Day, entitled “A Global Mission to Reach Every Child,” was apt as it aligned with one of the club’s focal areas of health.

Ms Abara said the club was committed to ensuring that all children were immunised against polio.

Similarly, the club’s state polio representative, Esimena Garpiya, said that the district had set up camps at various primary health centres for the immunisation within the Jos-Bukuru metropolis.

Garpiya said the disease, which affected the spinal cord, was vaccine preventable, and it was salient that parents availed their children of it.

The club had a sensitisation walk from Chobe Market to the Primary Health Care Centre in Ali Kazaure in the Jos North Local Government Area where children under five years of age were immunised.

(NAN)