Polio Awareness Walk

It was indeed an awareness day as the President, Rotns. VIVIAN OHIAERI and vice President DEBO ADEBAYO marched out with the other Rotaracts of Ogudu GRA District 9110 in a sensitization walk tagged AWARENESS WALK ON POLIO to mark the World’s Polio Day On Thursday 24th October, 2019.
The trek started from Kosofe Local Government Area Secretariat to Alhaja Abass Bus Stop, Ogudu Road, Ogudu Lagos where various medical treatments were given to the children within the area, free of charge.

World Polio Day was established by Rotary International over a decade ago to commemorate the birth of Jonas Salk, who led the first team to develop a vaccine against poliomyelitis. Use of this inactivated poliovirus vaccine and subsequent widespread use of the oral poliovirus, developed by Albert Sabin, led to the establishment of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in 1988. As of 2013, GPEI had reduced polio worldwide by 99%.

Polio is a crippling and potentially fatal infectious disease. There is no cure, but there are safe and effective vaccines. Polio can be prevented through immunization. Polio vaccine, given multiple times, almost always protects a child for life. The strategy to eradicate polio is therefore based on preventing infection by immunizing every child until transmission stops and the world is polio-free.