\u201cImmunisation is just an attempt to stop us from giving birth.\u201d<\/p>\n
So said a resident of Mafoni in Maiduguri in Borno State. She said immunisation was a modern concept and she did not think it was necessary.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we fall sick and go to the hospital even paracetamol is not free of charge let alone an operation. Immunisation is unimportant because it is just an attempt to stop us from giving birth,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Immunisation \u201cis not good\u201d. She said when women went to the hospital, they were asked to buy a form and fill it out.<\/p>\n
\u201cImmunisation is a deliberate attempt to reduce our reproductive capacity,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Zainab Abubakar said she did not go for immunisation because her husband was against the idea.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI have three children and none of them have been immunised. My husband\u2019s family doesn\u2019t like anything to do with the hospital,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Abubakar said that when her children fell ill she applied traditional medicine to treat them.<\/p>\n
But not everyone agreed.<\/p>\n
Zainab Maidugu at Shehuri in Maiduguri said she believed it was important to get children immunised and she had taken her daughter to get the necessary inoculations.<\/p>\n
She said all parents should do what they could to protect their children.<\/p>\n
Maidugu said that when she gave birth she had taken her baby for immunisation for the required nine months \u2013 it has since been extended to 12 months.<\/p>\n
She said that, since the immunisation, her children had become healthier and stronger: \u201cThey are free from fever and other illnesses. It does not harm children and it is done free of charge.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aisha Umar of Mafoni in Maiduguri believed that routine immunisation was good. She said her two-week-old baby had already been treated and she intended to continue to until the experts said the baby no longer needed to be immunised.<\/p>\n
A specialist from Yerwa Polyclinic in Maiduguri Babagana Usman Barma, said routine immunisation \u201cis very important\u201d for newly born babies especially if they were immunised shortly after delivery.<\/p>\n
He said that many mothers complained that their babies had difficulties after being immunised \u2013 including continual crying for a day \u2013 and that stopped them from treating their babies.<\/p>\n
But Barma said crying was \u201csimply a reaction\u201d and should not stop mothers from having their babies immunised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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