Asusun kula da kananan yara na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya (UNICEF), ya ce sama da yara 600,000 ba a yi musu rigakafin cututtuka masu kashe kananan yara ba a jihohi uku na Arewa, Jigawa, Katsina da Kano.
Mr. Rahama Farah, shugabar ofishin UNICEF na jihar Kano, ta bayyana haka a Kano, yayin wani taron manema labarai kan hukumar UNICEF ta jihar ta duniya (SOWC) 2023: halin da ake ciki na rigakafi da kuma yanayin da ake ciki a ofishin filin na Kano.
A cewarsa, jihar Kano ce ta fi kowacce yawan yaran da ba a yi musu rigakafi ba tare da yara sama da 300,000, wanda ya kai kashi 55 cikin 100.
Ya ce rigakafi shine ainihin hakkin yara, ya kara da cewa UNICEF ta damu sosai game da lafiyar yara a kasar, ya kara da cewa yara suna mutuwa a duniya saboda ba su da damar yin rigakafin cututtuka.
“Wannan babban abin damuwa ne a gare mu a Najeriya da Kano musamman,” in ji shi.
A nata gudunmawar, Abimbola Aman-Olaniyo, kwararre a fannin lafiya na UNICEF, ta ce idan ba a yi wa yara rigakafi ba, za su iya kamuwa da cututtuka da za a iya magance su, kuma za su iya kamuwa da cutar, kamar yadda ta tunatar da su game da bullar cutar Diphtheria a Kano da kuma cutar sankarau a Jigawa.
A cewarta, UNICEF ta shirya kai wa yara 250, 985 a Kano, da kuma yara 154,768 da 94,060 a jihohin Katsina da Jigawa, a shekarar 2023 domin rage yawan yaran da ba su da adadinsu.
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