Cross River State government has announced plan to vaccinate 900,000 children against polio.
Wife of the Governor, Linda Ayade, announced this during the official flag-off of outbreak response of Round Two campaign, yesterday in Calabar, the state capital.
Ayade noted that the exercise will be carried by the state Primary Healthcare Development Agency, adding that children from the ages 15 and below are the targeted beneficiaries.
In her remarks, the Director-General, of the State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Janet Ekpeyong, urged parents residing in the state to make their children available for vaccination to avoid being paralyzed.