Sanwo-Olu’s Wife Launches Measles Rubella Vaccination Campaign

Wife of Lagos State governor, Dr. Claudiana Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, has launched the Measles Rubella Vaccination (MRV) Campaign.

She called connected parents, guardians and assemblage leaders to guarantee each eligible kid is immunised.
The motorboat began with an consciousness locomotion from the Lagos State Secretariat, Alausa, done Obafemi Awolowo Way to Allen Roundabout, Ikeja, and was followed by a high-level stakeholders’ engagement league astatine Lagos House, Alausa.

Dr Sanwo-Olu described the run arsenic reflecting the State Government’s determination to safeguard children’s aboriginal and support unborn generations from preventable diseases.
She recalled that Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu had approved counterpart backing for the run connected August 18, 2025, underscoring his unwavering committedness to kid wellness and strengthening the state’s healthcare system.

“This enactment by the Governor is not lone a testament to his passionateness for kid wellness but besides a reflection of the State Government’s resoluteness to destruct preventable diseases,” the First Lady said.

The First Lady described the inaugural arsenic a corporate societal responsibility, championed nether the Governor’s Spouses Forum Initiative with beardown backing from the Centre for Well-being and Integrated Nutrition Solutions (C-WINS).

She warned astir the dangers of measles and rubella, which are highly contagious and susceptible of causing blindness, encephalon damage, deafness, commencement defects, oregon adjacent death. She explained that the MR vaccine provides dual protection, saves lives, reduces infirmary costs, and enhances the prime of beingness for children.

“The vaccine targets children betwixt 9 months and 14 years. Two doses supply up to 85 per cent immunity. While mild reactions similar fever oregon rash whitethorn occur, superior broadside effects are rare. The benefits acold outweigh immoderate impermanent discomfort,” she emphasised.

The Lagos First Lady assured parents the vaccines would beryllium free, safe, and disposable successful each authorities wellness facilities and schools crossed Lagos State from January 2026. She besides appealed to schoolhouse authorities to cooperate afloat to guarantee nary kid is near behind.

The precocious constituent of the lawsuit was the First Lady’s inauguration of salient accepted rulers and spiritual leaders arsenic Vaccination Ambassadors, including the Oba of Lagos, the Oniru of Iruland, the Onigando of Igando, the paramount ruler of Igbogbo, the Oniba of Iba, the Bale of Marine Beach, the Chief Imam of Lagos, the Lagos Chairman of CAN, the Iya Oloja General, and the Eze Ndigbo, among others.

“When culture, tradition, and subject enactment together, advancement is inevitable. With the voices of our royal fathers and assemblage leaders joining the call, we are assured that acceptance of the vaccine volition summation and hesitancy volition diminish,” she said.