As many states continue to encourage and record high coverage of immunization in Nigeria, an official of the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) Dr Ibrahim Ali-Mohammed has said the nation still have about 4 million children with cases of under-vaccination and unvaccinated.
This according to Dr Ibrahim is out of the 20 million unvaccinated and undervaccinated children globally.
Dr Ali-Mohammed, who is the Immunisation Officer, UNICEF Katsina Field Office, disclosed while speaking in Kano state during the World Immunization Week said Kano has the highest under-vaccinated, unvaccinated number of children in Nigeria.
According to him, Kano alone accounts for 350, 000 children of the 4 million undervaccinated, unvaccinated children in the country.
While appealing to the people of Kano to avail their children for immunization, Dr Ibrahim further assured that, UNICEF would continue to collaborate with Kano State Government and other relevant stakeholders to only make…
