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But Elizabeth Onitolo, UNICEF communication for development specialist, warned at the opening session of a three-day media dialogue on Tuesday in Adamawa state that more awareness was needed to avoid a return of the disease.
The joint media dialogue was organised by UNICEF, Child Rights Information Bureau (CRIB), and the ministry of information and culture.
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Onitolo said even though the country has been declared free of polio by the World Health Organisation (WHO), there is a need for increasing awareness on immunisation, particularly in the north-east region.
“There is a need for the media to do more awareness, particularly for people in the north-east, to guard against the coming back of polio and other likely diseases into the country,” she said.
The UNICEF says without adequate awareness on the need for people to continue routine immunisation especially that of polio, there are possibilities of Polio disease resurfacing in the country.