NIGERIA (Kano)- Twenty-three polio immunization ad hoc workers were dismissed yesterday by the Nassarawa Local Government of Kano State for negligence of duty during the last immunization exercise in November, 2013.

While disclosing this to newsmen at the council secretariat, the Head of Department of the Primary Healthcare Unit of the council, Mu’azu Muhammed said the workers allegedly denied five children the right to access the programme due to their failure to carry out the exercise in some section of the area.

According to him, the dismissed workers included five supervisors and 18 vaccinators deployed to Hotoro North but they failed to visit some houses for the exercise and did not report to the focal person about the situation until it was discovered during a verification exercise.

Mr. Muhammed attributed the recurrence of the Wild Polio Virus type 1 in the area to the resistance of a mother of twins who did not agree to have the children immunized.

He said anyone found guilty of manipulation during the final round currently taking place in the area would be sanctioned.