Mothers and expectant women have been advised to properly immunize and vaccinate their children to protect their health.
The Deputy Director Nursing and State Family Planning Coordinator, Mrs Stella Ekweozor who gave the advice during the 2018 second round maternal newborn and Child Health Week, MNCHW, held at General hospital Enugwu-Ukwu in Njikoka Council Area, also urged them to uphold all necessary safety precautions.
Mrs Ekweozor explained that the distribution of maternal newborn and Child Health Week commodities like family planning commodities, vitamin A, and other incentives started since Monday and would end on Sunday, noting that their work was to monitor the exercise and to ensure that places mapped out for the exercise are being visited, including like health centres, private hospitals, churches, markets, schools and other designated points.
She encouraged mothers and care givers to take their children to nearest health facilities to access the services, assuring that nurses, family planning personnel and others are there to attend to them.
Also speaking, the Chief Nursing Officer and Officer in charge of Ante natal Clinic and Immunization, General Hospital Enugwu-Ukwu, Mrs Loretto Okonkwo who expressed happiness on the massive turn out of people on first three days of the exercise said that mothers and pregnant women have been exposed to importance of immunization in children, hand washing, breast feeding and family planning among others, through health talks, adding that during the exercise mothers were given folic acid while children were given vitamin A for sight and Avendazone for deworming, even as measles, yellow fever, hypartitis, poliomyelitis and tuberculosis drugs were also given to children to prevent diseases.
Mrs Okonkwo advised mothers to breast feed their babies exclusively at least six months before any supplements and expectant mothers to always go for ante natal and take their drugs as directed by midwife as according to her it aids growth in children as well as encourage safe delivery and prevention of disease infection.
She added that the drugs were only meant for children zero to five years, pregnant women and women of child bearing age.
In their separate reactions,, a nursing mother Mrs Nkiru Okeke and an expectant mother, Mrs Nneka Nwamadu said they have learnt ways to protect their babies from diseases and maintain good hygiene management in their families.
The State Hygienic Officer, RUWASA, Mrs Rose Amasiani, the Media Desk Officer UNICEF, Mrs Franca Madike and Independent Monitor, Mrs Joy Obasi in their varios remarks said there was total compliance from mothers and children in the exercise, and adjudged the exercise as successful.
Among places visited during the immunization exercise were General Hospital and Living Saint Nursery and Primary school Urualore Enugwu-Ukwu in Njikoka Council Area of the state.
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