By Fatima Muraina

In a bid to ensure adequate COVID-19 vaccination amount residents, Ondo State Primary Health Care Development Agency, OSPHCDA, has strengthened its partnership with the Federation of Muslim Women’s Associations in Nigeria,  FOMWAN.

A health personnel from the agency, Mrs.Olubunmi Obaromi disclosed this at Oke Agbe while addressing Muslim women.

Obaromi said the state was rated on the red level, hence the need to create a strategy to ensure that people are vaccinated against the virus.

Obaromi stated that the agency adopted the 2.0 strategy to reach out to the people at the rural areas which could only be achieved through collaboration in order to move Ondo state health forward.

She said scale 2.0 strategy was the new strategy for COVID-19 vaccination because most people are not coming out to get vaccinated.

She stated that the agency has discovered that people don’t want to leave their comfort zone to access the healthcare services.

She described FOMWAN as a formidable association which has its members in all the 18 local government areas and can further help to encourage  people on the importance and need to get vaccinated.

Obaromi, while responding to questions, stated that of the vaccines are available in the state.

Reacting to the experience by some people who have taken the vaccine, Obaromi said “the vaccination is a foreign body and if it meets something in the body, it will push it out.

“It is the body that react to the foreign body not that the vaccine is not good or has any negative effect on the people.”

According to her, COVID-19 vaccination has override the yellow card because green card is now the most essential documents for people traveling out.

In their various contributions, the women advised that the agency should ensure the availability of the vaccines which has discouraged many people including those who had reactions when vaccinated.

They also advised on more drastic sensitization and not to relent in their efforts to meet their targeted goals and expectation.