Kano state: Red Cross mobilises 2,039 volunteers for measles vaccination

The Nigerian Red Cross Society (NRC), has trained 2,039 volunteers to participate in the 2023 enlightenment campaign and vaccination against measles in Kano State.

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The NRC’s Director of Health, Dr Mannir Hassan, said while Declaring open a one-day workshop for supervisors of the vaccination campaign, that the exercise would be conducted in partnership with Kano State government.

The training was conducted in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross.

He said, “The volunteers would be deployed in various communities to sensitise residents on the importance of measles vaccination.”

In his remarks, Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Red Cross Society, Kano State Branch, Alhaji Musa Abdullahi, said the volunteers came from 13 local government areas of the state.

He listed the local government areas as Bebeji, Bichi, Dala, Dawakin Kudu, Fagge, Garko, Garun Malam, Gwale, Nassarawa, Kano Municipal, Madobi, Ungogo and Wudil.

According to Abdullahi, “There were 204 supervisors, 13 data collection officers and 13 commanders to support the vaccination.”

Also speaking at the training, Kano State Commissioner for Health, Dr Labaran Yusuf, stressed the importance of the routine measles vaccination.

The commissioner assured that eligible children who missed the vaccination at regular cycles usually got covered between November and January when there is mop-up vaccination.
The latest vaccination will begin on Friday and end on Sunday.