The United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) yesterday disclosed that 108,575 under-five children in 850 Hard-to-Reach (HTR) communities in Niger State have been vaccinated and immunised.
The Niger State Coordinator of the UNICEF Hard to Reach Communities, Dr. Mohammed Khalid, said that 314,604 Oral Polio Vaccines (OPV) doses were administered to the children along with other medical interventions.
Khalid who disclosed this yesterday in Minna during a one-day sensitisation meeting with journalists in Minna said that there are 3,600 hard to reach communities in Niger State, where people have no access to healthcare facilities due to the challenging terrains leading to these communities.
He lamented that most of the health facilities are more than five kilometres from these communities which can take a number of hours for the villagers to get health services, adding that UNICEF is handling only 850 communities leaving about 2,950 communities without the possibility of accessing healthcare in the state.
“So many of these hard-to-reach communities are so far away from civilisation that they do not have electricity or even mobile networks. They have been abandoned, they are socially secluded and do not even know what they are missing because they have been left behind.”
Khalid further explained that the hard-to-reach project in Niger State engages in routine immunisation, including supplemental oral polio virus doses, diagnosis and treatment of childhood illnesses, nutritional assessment, Vitamin A supplements, among others.
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