The United Nations Children’s Funds, (UNICEF) has officially launched and release new song tittled ” No More Zero Dose” to help bring childhood immunization back on track.
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The song brings together 12 of the region’s top musicians, eight whom are from Nigeria and UNICEF champions Cobhams, Ali Nuhu, Kate Henshaw, Master Soumy, Mawndoe, omawumi, Qing Madi, Swkouba Bambino, Spyro, Stanley Enow, Timi Dakolo and WAJE to send a clear message: every child deserves to be protected by vaccines.
It highlights the urgent needs to reach zero-dose children- those who have not received any vaccinations and protect them from preventable childhood diseases like polio, measles and more.
Shortly after the launched, the Sokoto State Commissioner for Health, Hajiya Asabe Balarabe, lauded UNICEF and other partners for their commitments in ensuring every child is immunised in the state.
Balarabe assured the state government more support and mobilisation to ensure every child is immunised from every nook and cranny of the state.
She urged parents and other stakeholders in the state to continue to cooperate and make their children available to be vaccinated to protect children from polio diseases.
“Let us work together to ensure every child across 23 local government areas received the vital vaccines they deserve, to protect their future,” She noted.
Also in her remarks, the Executive Secretary Sokoto State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, (SSPHCDA) Dr Larai Aliyu Tambuwal, said polio is a killer disease that denied a child several rights from normal life.
Dr Tambuwal noted that 116 countries are affected with the polio disease and now only Nigeria, Indonesia and Afghanistan are still suffering from the disease.
She called on various stakeholders to continue to partner state government to ensure total eradication of polio disease across the 23 local government areas of the state.
The Executive Secretary commended UNICEF for introducing the music which reiterated effective collaboration to ensure Zero dose among children ” the music is powerful tool help to change the narrative, and it signifies a message that no child should missed”.
Also speaking, the Permanent Secretary Sokoto State Ministry of Information and Orientation, Ibrahim Muhammad, advocated for more collaboration particularly with the media to ensure the song reach the target population.
He assured his ministry’s readiness to pass the new song through various media platforms to all nook and cranny of the state to ensure effective mobilisation of parents to present their children for immunization.
He further urged all relevant stakeholders to continue to put all hands on deck to ensure no more zero dose in the state.
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