Dr. Janet Ekpenyong
By Akpan David, Calabar
Director-General of Cross River State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr Janet Ekpenyong has explained that her staff befriend militants in the state in order to have access to their families and administer polio vaccines to their children and others in the riverine areas.
She said this at the official flag off of outbreak response of Round Two (OBR 2) campaign in Calabar.
She said that 900 children are to be vaccinated against polio disease, so that they can grow up to form a healthy population.
“We go to the extent of fraternizing with the militants to enable us administer Polio vaccines to children in the riverine communities.
Ekpeyong urged parents to make their children available for vaccination to avoid being paralyzed.
“We are asking all parents to notify us of any child 15 years and below with signs of paralyses.
“We are liveraging on the campaign to see that any child less than 15 years that shows signs of paralysis of lower limbs, should please report to appropriate quarters. “To tell you how committed we are in our campaign to have a healthy population in time to come.
Chairman of women medical doctors in the state, Vivian Mesembe Otu, state that 50 percent of children in the State have been vaccinated, revealing that statistics available shows that lot of children were yet to be vaccinated of polo vaccine.
