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.
Browsing: polio vaccine
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.