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Immunization Type: is Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention SMC

This type of immunization is for the prevention of malaria in children less than five years old which is from 0-59 years of age, the program started in Nigeria in the year 2021 and the drugs are administered for five months every year to say that this year it started in June and will end in November 2024 but this picture was taken the just concluded immunization exercise in September.

This picture was taken during the fourth round of the program.

The drugs are given to prevent malaria in children of the targeted age (0-59 months) given after 28 days. The reason why the program usually takes place from June to October is that during raining season, there is humidity and this weather speeds up the mosquito's metabolism and reproductive possess which makes the population of mosquitoes multiply faster.

We all know that malaria is a disease caused by the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes.

After I collected the drugs, I went to my today's settlement and started the work properly.

Method of administrating the drugs

The program is a house-to-house program, when I reach a house, I usually start by greeting the people of the house, and the next thing I will ask for the eligible children who are less than five years of age. In a case where there is an eligible child or children, I will open the sachets and give the child today's drugs, and the remaining two days' drugs I will give to the parent or caregiver of the child to give the remaining two days' doses to the child. The essence of giving the children the first dose of the drugs by myself is to teach the parents or the caregiver of the child how they will give the remaining doses also I want to be sure that the first dose is being taken and after administrating the drugs, I will issue a child SMC card and fill the necessary data, I will also mark a cycle that indicates that the first dose is being given and the child took it, I will also show the mother of the child how I cycle marked the card so that when she can give the remain two doses and she can also mark to indicate that she gave the remaining doses to the child.

After I finished administrating the drugs successfully, I also went out of the house and wrote on the wall the house marking indicating the number of eligible children and the number of children who are not eligible.

In a case where I enter a house and there is no eligible child, I will also go outside the house and write the house marking indicating that there is no eligible child in the house.

The essence of the house marking is to always guide me on the number of children in the house when next I come for another round. The house marking also guides the supervisors when they come to supervise my work.

The work is not too easy but I always derived joy from doing the work because the work is part of my field of professional.

At the end of my today's work, I went to the secretariat and submitted my today's report

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