Some foreigners flatly turned
down ongoing immunization being carried out by the Nigerian government in parts
of the nations’s capital, Abuja.
Federal Capital Territory (FCT)
Primary Health Care Development Board made the disclosure on Tuesday.
Dr Mathew Ashikeni, acting
Executive Secretary of the Board, expressed sadness and disappointment over the
development, insisting that the healthcare campaign was for good of kids.
Speaking on the matter, Ashikeni
told NAN that some vaccinators, had gone to Lautai Estate in Wuse Zone 4.
The official recalled foreigners
residing there turned them down.
He said that the foreigners went
further by threatening not to pay the estate security guards should they allow
the vaccinators access.
Ashikeni also complained about
the management of Turkish Hospital and International School in Abuja.
“They also prevented the health
workers from carrying out the immunisation in their facilities.”
The board secretary however
assured that “the vaccine being given to the children is safe”.
He wondered why the foreigners
were rejecting it and warned that it was and would expose the children to
measles.
Ashikeni appealed to appropriate
authorities to call the foreigners to order.
The FCT Administration had on
February 8 commenced vaccination against measles targeted at 619,000 children.
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