The United Nations Children’s Education Fund has disclosed that Kano State alone contributed to about 80 per cent of the diphtheria outbreak in the country.
The Chief of the UNICEF Field Office in Kano, Mr Rahma Mohammed Farah, stated this while addressing newsmen during a one-day workshop tagged “Media orientation on diphtheria outbreak” organised by UNICEF in conjunction with the Federal Ministry of Information in Kano, with participants drawn from various media organisation from Kano, Kaduna, Jigawa, Sokoto and Katsina states.
He further said about 60.8 per cent of total suspected cases of diphtheria disease are from unimmunised children.
He however said to battle the disease, UNICEF had last week delivered 1.2 million vaccines to the Kano State Government, in its continued support to the government for response to the diphtheria outbreaks.
Farah, who emphasised the importance of routine immunisation as well as the dangers related to the issue of…