Dr Emmanuel Odu, Acting Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), said that the Federal Government has released N9.8 billion for polio eradication and immunisation programme.
Odu made this known in Abuja during a news conference on the recent polio outbreak in the northeast.
He commended President Muhammadu Buhari for his commitment and the timely release of the fund budgeted for polio eradication and immunisation programme
He
said that the agency believed that similar arrangement would be
repeated for 2017 to push toward delisting Nigeria as polio endemic
country.
Odu said the federal government has
released the fund as part of its substantial investment in its
determination to save lives, protect Nigeria children and pregnant
women.
According to him, after two years without
wild polio virus in the country, Nigeria confirmed that three children
were paralyzed by the disease in Borno.
“The
cases which originated from Jere, Gwoza and Monguno local governments of
Borno as a result of the activities of Boko Haram insurgents.
He
said as part of the response to the outbreak, the agency was to
mobilise personnel to the area to strengthen routine immunisation and
notify all the stakeholders.
“Individual case investigation instituted for each of the cases and a comprehensive outbreak response plan was developed.
“As
part of the immediate response mop-up targeting five local governments
and 820,000 eligible children were vaccinated,” he said.
The
executive director said the agency had outlined five rounds of the
polio outbreak immunisation response between August and November.
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