Olayinka Abiodun
@olayinkaabiodun027126
1 year ago
I was barely 8, when I read about the experience of someone suffering from poliomyelitis, simply put, Polio, in the newspaper. This woman shared her experience in the Sunday Punch Newspaper of how she battled polio from her childhood days. This woman cannot walk and has to use a wheelchair for mobility. I remember from what I read, she said, "Her parent's regret chasing the health officials who used to come around then aggressively."
Trust the naive me then, I was like "is it ordinary injection that someone did not take that will now make the person legs to fail" I could swear then that it was Iṣẹ aye and not an ordinary issue.
In a vocabulary exercise I did in junior sec school, I came across the word poliomyelitis again. But there I got a little more understanding of what it was, because while doing the exercise, I had to consult wikipedia to get some answers right.
It was there I learnt that truly, Polio could cause legs failure in a person. It starts from gradual weakening in the muscles. Not only that, it could affect a person's brain, the spinal cord and cause severe paralysis or even death. Scary right? Now you know why I keep sharing that you should vaccinate your child, okay.
There is basically no cure for polio, yea, just like HIV/AIDs, but there are vaccines to prevent one from contacting it, just like Covid-19, shey you get? This is why it is advisable for every parent to vaccinate their children, you don't want them to go through pains in the later part of their lives.
So one task for you, encourage someone out there to vaccinate their kids against Polio. Tell someone that the polio vaccine is totally safe, effective and free. You know I always talk about being kind, this is definitely one way to show your kindness.
Do this one thing for me today. Thank you.
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