There are indications that Kebbi state has recorded 25 new cases of polio virus in nine local government areas, the state Health Educator at the State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Yusuf Sauwa has disclosed.
Sauwa made this known at a one day stakeholder meeting with traditional rulers and media practitioners at the Polio Emergency Center in Birnin-Kebbi on Wednesday.
The affected local government areas include, Birnin Kebbi, Argungu, Augie, Suru, Bagudo, Gwandu, Aliero, Fakai and Danko Wasagu.
He said the state government had intensified efforts to curtail the transmission of the disease and improve the immune system of children.
Sauwa said the meeting was to intimate mobilisation officers on the need to come up with methodologies towards adequate information that would be communicated to the grassroots so that community would be engaged.
He further said that the state government is collaborating with UNICEF to ensure that children are vaccinated to boost their immunity to fill the gap in those children that are circulating polio variant.
“This discovered variant is a challenge to Kebbi State we are trying to see how best we can stop the transmission of the disease among other children.”