The Federal Government would from September introduce human papilloma virus vaccine to prevent the spread of papilloma virus, often responsible for cervical cancer.
It was gathered that the
government plans to do this in collaboration with other development partners in the health sector.
Executive Director of National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this at the quarterly review meeting of the South West traditional leaders committee on Primary Health Care delivery organised by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency in Akure, the Ondo State capital.
Shuaib said the vaccine would prevent the spread of cancer, especially among women. He disclosed women from age 19 years and above are to take the vaccine, which, he said, has been tested and proved to be active for prevention of cervical and other types of cancer.
The executive secretary lamented that children in the South West geo-political zone were not properly immunised between January and June this year.
According to him, only 189,310 children spread across the six states of the South West region were not immunised between January and June.
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He said Lagos State has the highest number of children not immunised in the year under review, followed by Oyo and Ondo states.
He, therefore, charged the traditional leaders in the six states of the region to embark on advocacy programme to ensure efficient participation of children in their domains in the subsequent rounds of immunisation exercise.
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Also, he enjoined traditional rulers to mobilise children for immunisation and other primary health care exercises organised from time to time.
Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, lauded the primary heath care programmes of the Federal Government.
He urged the traditional rulers to support the Federal Government in its quest to ensure healthy living by mobilising their subjects for immunisation exercise.
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