The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in collaboration with the Kebbi State Primary Health Care Development Agency, has announced the delivery of two million doses of polio vaccine to Kebbi in preparation for the 2025 round of the polio vaccination campaign.
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In a renewed effort to eradicate circulating polio variant type 2 in the Lake Chad Basin, Ministers of Health from Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, and the Republic of Niger have launched a synchronised regional vaccination campaign, aimed at protecting 83 million under-five children.
Rotary Club’s District Chairperson on Campaign against Polio, Dr Khadijat Yusuf has said that over 90 per cent of Nigeria population have come to accept and believe in polio vaccine.
The Deputy Incident Manager of National Polio Emergency Operations, Dr Idowu Audu on Saturday said Nigeria has been consuming 70 percent of the world’s polio vaccines without significant results.