The Zamfara State government says over 1.5 million people have received COVID-19 vaccines.
Executive Secretary, State Primary Health Care Board (PHCB), Dr Tukur Sama’ila, disclosed this in Gusau on Tuesday at the quarterly media engagement and sensitisation meeting organised by the board to intimate the media on programmes and activities of the board towards promoting health care delivery.
“We invite you to this meeting, especially the media, to seek your support in advocating various challenges and promotion of our activities,” he said.
According to him, the state has recorded the tremendous success in vaccination despite the lingering security challenges.
He explained that out of 14 Local Government Areas of the state, Anka has the highest performance record with 57 per cent achievement.
“We are hoping that by September this year, other local governments are expected to achieve up to 70% per cent achievement records”, he added.
The Executive Secretary decried the low health facility delivery by pregnant women in the state.
He noted that women “having their babies in their homes is one of the major challenges, we are facing in Zamfara.
“This is very wonderful, the Antenatal Care (ANC) data is always rising in our facilities but 70 to 80 per cent of our pregnant women attend ANC in hospitals but when it comes to delivery it is very low.
“Another area of challenge is immunisation, we have the vaccine, we have eligible children, but the vaccine is not getting to children.
“We have problems of non compliance, non-availability of children, religious and cultural challenges from communities,” he said.
According to him, behavioural change is also a major issue of concern therefore, it needs to be given a serious attention.
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