As the world celebrate 2016 World Immunization week, The Deputy Governor of Imo State, Prince Eze Madumere has praised mothers for their undying effort towards ensuring that Nigerian children are prevented from diseases through routine immunization.
Prince Eze Madumere’s commendation was contained in a Press Release signed by his Media Aide, Uche Onwuchekwa.
While applauding Governments of Nigeria in collaboration with World Health Organisation’s unbridled effort with other relevant agencies, especially the health workers towards ensuring that every child is shielded from diseases, he called for commensurate reciprocation from the parents.
Stressing the importance of immunization, Prince Madumere quoting the World Health Organization said that as at April 21, 2016, 2 to 3 million deaths are averted annually through immunization. He also said that a startling revelation that one in every five children worldwide is still missing routine immunization ought to be reduced.
He therefore called on parents especially the women to surpass their unbeaten record in ensuring that their children join their counterparts at every specified period to take their routine immunization to avoid “had I known”.
Prince Eze Madumere emphasized the need not to give room for deadly diseases like polio meningitis, measles, tetanus and other deadly diseases to either cause avoidable deaths or render the children incapacitated. He reminded them how unhappy those children will feel on realizing that such ailments are preventable after all especially when they are free.
He therefore implored parents to be religious about their children’s routine immunization schedules while calling on husbands to pay more attention to this onerous task of safe-guiding the children from avoidable ravages of diseases reminding them that the children are tomorrow’s leaders.
