Save the Children International (SCI) as part of efforts to check poor immunisation in Lagos State and its negative consequences of children dying from preventable deaths is partnering the state government to implement a new immunisation project to ensure all children are immunised.
  
Speaking during a one-day workshop organised by SCI for stakeholders in Lagos under its Better Opportunity for Optimal Services and Targeted Immunisation for Zero Dose and Under Immunised Children (BOOST Project) – a four-year (2024-2027), Lagos State Project Manager, and Advocacy Coordinator of the BOOST project in Lagos State, Dr Itunu Dave-Agboola, disclosed that the project is about improving immunisation rate in Lagos State.
   
She added that the project would be engaging critical stakeholders during the years the project would be implemented in Lagos, stating that the project wants to ensure that all children get immunised including those that have missed receiving a vaccine at a stage.
     
Dave-Agboola stated that SCI would be collaborating with Lagos State Accountability Mechanism (LASAM) for Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent, Health and Nutrition as a way to ensure a sustainable environment for immunisation funding, human resources for health, and policies geared towards reducing the prevalence of zero-dose and under-immunised children.
   
She also pledged to work with the media on the project, though she implored media practitioners to propagate not just the activities around the project but educate the population about immunisation as well as get government and private businesses to better commit to immunisation projects and programmes.