Mohammed Shosanya
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for increased funding of immunisation by goverment and stakeholders to save lives of children.
Mrs Juliet Chiluwe, Chief of Field Office, UNICEF Enugu stated this in an interview with Journalists in Enugu.
Mrs Chiluwe,who said millions of children have being saved from vaccine-preventable diseases across the world in the last 50 years stated that the vaccination campaign focuses on child vaccination and celebration of achievements of the past 50 years of immunization efforts through possible campaign.
She said: “We commend the state goverment for their commitment in immunization exercise. Currently, We don’t have any case of polio in this region and even the outbreaks are on a minimal scale.
“The more reason we are stressing that the state government and other stakeholders partners to continue investing in immunization to ensure no child dies from vaccine preventable diseases,” she said
Mrs Chiluwe,who also called for intensive sensitization of immunization said “the more we campaign and sensitize the people, the more parents and wards come out to immunize their children.
She reiterated the commitment of UNICEF to continue to work with state goverment to ensure that all children are immunized.