African Country Threatens to Jail Parents for Skipping Polio Vaccination

African Country Threatens to Jail Parents for Skipping Polio Vaccination








Parents who do not allow their children to be administered the polio vaccine (Read: 78 Percent of Pakistani Children with Polio were Given Polio Vaccines) are now facing jail time for defying a government order in one of Africa’s most populous nations. Tajuddeen Gambo, the permanent
secretary of the Kano state health ministry, said that Nigeria has a
law that punishes parents who do not succumb to government demands to
vaccinate their children.

News24 reports:


“Polio immunisation is part of health care,” Gambo said.

Kano state is located at the heart of Nigeria’s impoverished and
Muslim-dominated north where polio vaccines have been met with
resistance by a minority, but health officers say that minority is
enough to compromise the entire door-to-door campaign.

“When they come to my house, I will tell them there are no children in
this house,” says a 45-year-old politician in the village of Dungurawa,
just outside the city of Kano.



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