In a bid to close childhood immunisation gap in the country, the federal government in partnership with the World Health Organisation (WHO) has restrategised to immunise the 6.2 million children that did not receive any vaccine from 2019 to 2021, targeting 930,000 children annually.
WHO Team Lead, Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Polio Eradication, Dr. Kofi Boateng, disclosed this at the NPHCDA engagement with States on Optimised Outreach Strategy, in Abuja.
Boateng noted that the impact of COVID-19 has resulted to about 33 million children not receiving any vaccine from 2019 to 21.
He said the fact that these children have not received the vaccine is the reason the country is witnessing a lot of outbreaks like measles, diphtheria, yellow fever and others.
