The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has described vaccines as one of humanity’s greatest achievements, saying that essential vaccines have saved over 154million lives in the last 50 years.
Chief of Field Office (CFO) UNICEF, Enugu office, Mrs. Juliet Chiluwe, stated this in Enugu on Thursday during a two-day multi zonal media dialogue to commemorate 2025 World Immunization Week (WIW).
Chiluwe who gave the theme of this year’s exercise as ‘Immunization for All is Humanly Possible’, said extensive immunization exercise will hold in 12 targeted states.
He mentioned the states to include; Abia, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bayelsa, Cross River, Benue, Ebonyi, Enugu, Rivers, Delta, Imo and Kogi.
Speaking to journalists and other health practitioners present, Chiluwe said that she is happy to be here on this auspicious occasion of the fostering dialogue that will help promote and provide quality immunization services to everyone, especially the children we serve.
