Covid-19: Kebbi government to vaccinate over 2.9m people out of 5.3m population – Commissioner
Covid-19: Kebbi government to vaccinate over 2.9m people out of 5.3m population – Commissioner
The Kebbi Government says it will vaccinate 2,868,827 eligible persons out 5.3 million population in the ongoing covid- 19 vaccination exercise in the country.
The state Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Muhammad Ja’afar, made this known at the flag -off of the training, of the introduction of covid-19 vaccine in Birnin Kebbi on Wednesday.
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He said,” The aim of the training is to expose our responsible health workers on regiment and technical information on the covid-19 vaccine’s procedure.
“It is very important to have state level training for our health workers by facilitators from the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NHCDA) in order for them to cascade the training down to health workers in the 21 local government areas of the state.”
Jaafar added that the training was one of the cardinal requirement before the transportation of covid-19 vaccine into the state.
“We have met some of the major requirements of the national primary healthcare development agency in conjunction with the Federal Ministry of Health for us to be able to access the vaccine.
” We have already submitted the number of our health facilities; the number of front line health workers; and we have situational rooms and modern vaccine storage facilities, among others,” he said.
He also said that a team of 788 health personnel would go round for supervision and monitoring to ensure the entrenchment of due process in the exercise.
The commissioner,however, revealed that over 2.868,827 people would be vaccinated out of 5.3 million population of the state in the ongoing covid- vaccination exercise.
Also speaking, the Executive Secretary, state Primary Healthcare Development Agency (PHCDA), Dr Abubakar Ka’oje, commended the federal and state governments for procuring the vaccine.
“This is another milestone in the fight against the covid-19, and it shows the commitment of the federal and state governments in order to safeguard the lives and promote healthcare development services of their people,” Ka’oje said.
Earlier, A team leader from the national primary healthcare development agency, Alhaji Jalaluddeen Jalaluddeen, said that that the team was in the state to help and support the state in the vaccination exercise.
“We have come to train the trainers , to ensure that the due process is maintained as dully required ,” he said.
Covid-19: Kebbi government to vaccinate over 2.9m people out of 5.3m population – Commissioner
