Sokoto battles Polio with 597 health facilities, N400m counterpart funding

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Sokoto battles Polio with 597 health facilities, N400m counterpart funding

Sokoto State government has achieved a significant increase in the number of health facilities that offer routine immunization against polio in the last one year from 553 to 597.

Equally, the state government, revealed the commissioner for health, Dr Ali Inname, has within one year released N400m as its counterpart funding of the program on immunization in which it partners the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), Dangote Foundation (DF), United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

According to Gov. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, who spoke on made these known while enumerating other achievements recorded by his administration at the end of the year (2019) routine immunization Memorandum of Understanding (RIMoU) meeting held at Government House, Sokoto, “the reduction in the number of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) identified in 2019 is a pointer to improvements in our routine immunization program…



Source: Vanguard Newspaper