The free medical healthcare outreach, organized by the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICE, for women and children at Okpoko, Ogbaru Local Government Area on Sunday, March nineteen 2023, recorded large turnout of target audience.
The free healthcare outreach was specifically packaged by UNICEF for women and children in seven council areas of Anambra State, ravaged by flood in 2022.
Speaking during the exercise, the local Immunization Officer for Ogbaru, Ms. Modesta Chukwuneke, disclosed that Okpoko is one of the centers approved for the five-day outreach where COVID-19 Vaccine and immunization would be administered to beneficiaries.
She attributed the large turnout recorded at the center to aggressive sensitization, adding that they have enough vaccines that can take care of two thousand children.
According to Ms. Chukwuneke, the immunization exercise, which would hold in sixteen wards in the area, was for babies from zero to two years, while the COVID-19 Vaccines were for adults yet to receive their jabs.
She stressed that the State Primary Health Care Development Agency, ASPHDA, in collaboration with UNICEF, engaged town announcers to inform people about the exercise, especially those at the hard-to-reach areas.
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