immunization in our country

Immunization, which is a means of making adults and little children resist deadly and killer diseases, is very important in our country. Several years ago, a lot of children were lost to several ravaging killer diseases like measles, small pox, whooping cough and diarrhea in their infancy. It was fashionable then to tag these children Abiku because parents did not know that their children should be prevented from these deadly diseases.

It is very important that our people should see immunization of children as the only way to prevent the outbreak of these killer diseases. Furthermore, we have a lot to gain and nothing to lose if we allow our children to be immunized.
A child immunized against these deadly diseases will grow to become a healthy adult. Therefore, if our country can allow its children to be immunized, infant mortality will be reduced and healthy and energetic youths will emerge out of these children to replace the old labour force in the farm.
Immunization, to my mind, is what we seriously need in our community. It will assist in reducing in incidence of children’s deformity in our society.
Finally, our women should be encouraged to surrender their children for immunization. The advantages of immunization cannot be quantified. If we do not want to continue to lose our children to these ravaging diseases which are prevented, we should embrace immunization.