Without much ado, a definition of immunization
is enough to bring home its importance in my
locality orany otherplaceforthatmatter.
Immunization is scientific means of making people, particular
children resist deadly or killer-disease. Scientists have succeeded
in getting vaccine or chemical substances which can be injected in
to a person's body to act as a protection against diseases.
About forty five years ago a lot if infants who were not
vaccinated or immunized died as a result of the attacks of
whooping cough, measles, diphtheria„ a good pox and small pox
in yola my locality, a good number of children who survived these
diseases were those whose parents took nice decision and pains
to inoculate, most parents who did all they could to thwart the
altruistic efforts of the health officials, who pleaded with them to
bring their children for inoculation lived to regret their actions.
while children who were inoculated lived, their own children died
on dozens.
Immunization saves all parents from loosing their
children prematurely to deadly but preventable diseases. so
immunization has begun an erawhere parents can have children
and boast that barring accidents and other ways of loosing lives.,
theiryoung Jnes will grow up into useful adults.
Children who are timely and properly immunizes can
enjoy goocl health and rearing in their infant years. This makes
child bearing and rearing less cumbersome if not totally without
tears. The converience which inoculation enables parents to enjoy
is almost incalculable.
Vaccinated children grow up into healthy adults. Their
growth is not impaired or stunted by measles or any of those
debilitating diseases. are capable of impairing the mental faculties
of children. Immunization thwarts all diseases that can stunt the
physical and mental growth of children.
Another significance of immunization is that it gives the
society the assurance that its young ones will soon grow up to
replenish the Labour force which old age and retirement of adult
person deplete. A society whose young population is seriously
threatened by widespread and unchecked killer disease is
doomed for so many reasons.
My locality of Yola which is trying to recover from the
losses of virile men and women during the insurgency now knows
the advantage of inoculations against all killerdisease too well.
In conclusion, immunization programme, which ourstate
ministry of health has been emphasizing has tremendously saved
us from huge sums of money spent on herbalist, sacrifices and
fruitless hunting for so•called witches that are allegedly behind all
infantdeaths.