Abattoir residents appeal for health personnel at clinic
Residents of Abattoir community in Abaji Area Council appeal to the authorities of the council to provide health personnel to man the clinic in the area.
The spokesperson of the community, Abubakar Usman, stated this when the chairman of the council, Alhaji Abdulrahman Ajiya, launched the second phase of the polio immunisation exercise at the community’s primary health centre on Saturday.
He said the health centre had one health official, adding that the cannot attend to the large population of the area.
Usman also decried the level at which erosion threatens houses and the health centre at the community.
He urged the chairman to hasten construction of water drainage system in the area to curtail erosion.
Speaking, the head of department for health of the council, Dr Basil Magaji, stressed the need for mothers to bring their children between the ages of one to five years for routine immunisation.
On his part, the chairman of the council, Alhaji Abdulrahman Ajiya, said the government’s decision to carry out the routine immunisation exercise was intended to eradicate polio.
He called on traditional rulers and religious leaders to sensitise their subjects on importance of polio immunisation.
The chairman said the council members would meet with the head of department for health to deploy health personnel to man the health centre in the area.
He added that the council had captured the issue of erosion affecting the community in the council’s budget for next year.