The Katsina State Government has announced plans to immunise no fewer than three million children against the polio virus in the March 2026 vaccination campaign across all 361 wards in the state’s 34 local government areas.
The Executive Secretary of the State Primary Health Care Agency, Shamsudeen Yahaya, disclosed this during a media dialogue, sensitisation, and mobilisation event on Monday in Katsina.
He said the exercise would target children aged 0–59 months across 19,790 settlements in the state.
Yahaya explained that the vaccination campaign is scheduled to run from March 28 to April 2, with an additional two-day mop-up exercise before it concludes.
He added that over 10,000 personnel would participate in the exercise, including workers sponsored by the government and various non-governmental organisations.
According to him, partners such as the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund will deploy personnel to support the campaign.
“Several states will also be conducting similar vaccination campaigns during the same period, including Kwara, Niger, Kaduna, Kano, Jigawa, Bauchi, Yobe, Gombe, Adamawa, and Nasarawa,” he said.
Yahaya noted that about 2.6 million children were immunised during last year’s exercise, expressing optimism that this year’s campaign would meet the three million target.
He added that although the state recorded about two cases of the virus in the Danmusa Local Government Area, the current campaign aims to ensure zero cases going forward.
He, therefore, called on media practitioners and other stakeholders to intensify public sensitisation and mobilisation efforts to ensure widespread participation in the exercise.
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