source: IPN
The Ogun State Government has announced plans to vaccinate no fewer than 2.9 million children against Measles and Rubella as it rolls out a statewide vaccination campaign scheduled to run from January 20 to January 29, 2026.
The campaign, targeting children aged nine months to 14 years, was unveiled during a stakeholders’ meeting organised by the Ogun State Primary Health Care Board (SPHCB), in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta on Tuesday to sensitise partners, including media practiooners ahead of the exercise.
Rubella, also known as German measles, is a contagious viral infection that usually causes mild fever and rash but poses severe risks to unborn babies when pregnant women are infected, often resulting in blindness, deafness, heart defects and other congenital abnormalities
Speaking at the meeting, the Executive Secretary of the Ogun State Primary Health Care Development Board, Dr Elijah Ogunsola, said the campaign would adopt a ward-to-ward and settlement-to-settlement approach to ensure wide coverage across the state.
