The proportion of kids who obtained the third dose of the pentavalent vaccine (Penta 3) in Kwara has elevated from 34.9 per cent in 2024 to 50.4 per cent in 2025–2026.
Nusirat Elelu, the manager secretary of the Kwara State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, disclosed this in an announcement made accessible to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday.
Ms Elelu defined that the event is contained in a current survey report launched by the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.
She described the newest survey findings as encouraging indicators of progress in baby well being throughout the state.
She added that the proportion of kids aged 12 to 23 months who had obtained no vaccines declined from 48.1 per cent to 27.3 per cent inside the interval below evaluation.
According to her, this displays substantial progress in reaching extra youngsters with life-saving immunisation providers.
The government secretary defined that the pentavalent vaccine administered to youngsters aged six, 10 and 14 weeks will shield them towards 5 critical illnesses, together with diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough.
“This enchancment in our pentavalent vaccine coverage underscores the Kwara authorities’s effort at bettering baby well being.
“It further reaffirms the importance of routine immunisation in protecting children and promoting healthy development,” she stated.
Ms Elelu quoted the survey as saying stunting declined from 40.8 per cent to 35.5 per cent; losing lowered from 6.1 per cent to 3.5 per cent, whereas underweight prevalence dropped from 24.5 per cent to 14.8 per cent.
She famous that these enhancements represented encouraging improvement in efforts to promote baby survival, wholesome progress and total wellbeing in Kwara.
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“This is one of the greatest improvements in our nutrition indices recorded in Kwara in recent years,” she stated.
She attributed the success to the state authorities’s funding in major healthcare, notably by way of assist for nutrition-sensitive interventions and the biannual Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Week.
She reiterated the company’s dedication to strengthening major healthcare supply by way of routine and outreach immunisation, group mobilisation, vitamin providers and progress monitoring.
She enjoined mother and father and caregivers to maintain the features by taking their youngsters to the closest major healthcare centre without cost routine immunisation.
Ms Elelu suggested them to maintain their immunisation playing cards up to date, take part in group outreach programmes, and guarantee common monitoring of their youngsters’s progress.
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