Following the suspected outbreak of measles in the Malammadori Local Government Council of Jigawa, Malam Garba Isa, the Disease Surveillance Officer of the council, disclosed that it had set out to immunise about 100 children against the disease.
He said the children were immunised against the disease at Kargo and Mukkadir communities, where sporadic cases of the disease were recorded, noting that the measure was to ensure effective response and treatment of the infected children.
The Chairman of the council, Alhaji Ali Alkali, said the Local Government had provided drugs and consumables to health outfits in the affected communities to enhance treatment of the disease.
He stated that the council had also adopted measures to effectively control the spread of the disease and called on parents to present their children for the exercise in order to tackle measles and other child killer diseases.
