As Nigeria joins other countries to observe this year’s African Vaccine Week (AVW), the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) has disclosed that in six months’ time, Nigeria will be declared polio-free.
Executive Director of NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib made the disclosure yesterday, at a press conference in commemoration of the 2019 AVW, in Abuja.
“Because we have been innovative and creative with routine immunizations, we are now at a point where we are just some six months away from being declared polio-free in Nigeria.
“Working together with partners, traditional, religious, political, and opinion leaders, we have achieved improvements in routine immunization coverage rates from 48% in 2015 to 57% in 2018 as revealed by the recent SMART survey conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics,” he said.
Dr. Shuaib also commended the efforts of President Muhammadu Buhari and the Federal Ministry of Health, saying that their commitment…
