Via allAfrica.com, a report from Leadership: Nigeria: FG Releases 28 Million Oral Polio Vaccines for Immunisation Exercise. Excerpt:
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency says the Federal Government has released 28 million Oral Polio Vaccines for immunisation exercise in polio high risk states.
This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Saadu Salahu, the Head, Public Relations Unit of the agency, in Abuja on Friday.
Dr Ado Muhammad, the Executive Director of the agency, said the vaccines had been released for the success of the exercise in this month's campaign in these high risk states.
According to him, more than 25 million under-five children will be immunised during the supplementary immunisation exercise.
Muhammad said the exercise would be carried out in 12 polio high risk states in the north from Oct. 6 to Oct. 9.
He said the exercise was designed specifically to immunise every under-five child, especially those not immunised in the previous exercises.
The 12 polio high risk states are: Borno, Yobe, Katsina, Bauchi, Kaduna, Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi, Jigawa, Kano and Niger.
