KAYODE IDOWU

The World Health Organisation and its partners have targeted one million children for immunisation against malaria in Borno State.

Speaking to journalists on Saturday at the El-Miskin Internally Displaced Persons camp, one of the designated points for immunisation in Jere Local Government Area of the state, WHO Field Communication Officer, Dr Chima Onuekwe, said the exercise followed the success of last year’s malaria immunisation in the state where four immunisation cycles were introduced.

Onuekwe also revealed that four immunisation cycles would be effected in the state this year with a million children between three-month-old and 59-month-old, treated. She said the ongoing exercise was the second cycle which ran from August 23 through August 26.

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