Nigeria remains one of the three countries where polio still exists.

The World Health Organisation, WHO, and the United
Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said Nigeria recorded a
50 per cent decline in the number of polio cases in the
second quarter of this year.

Nigeria along with Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only
three countries in the world where polio exists.

This is contained in a statement signed and issued on
Wednesday in Abuja by Geoffery Njoku, a Communication
Specialist at UNICEF.

“Nigeria is making progress toward the target of stopping
polio. To date in 2013, Nigeria has reported a 50 per cent
decline in the number of cases with 25 cases in nine
states, compared to 54 cases in 10 states for the same
period in 2012.’’

The statement noted that more than 60 per cent of the
cases in 2013 occurred in the security-compromised areas of Borno and Yobe states which offered limited access to children for vaccination.

It said that Nigeria’s polio programme had surged forward
and was making progress as outlined by recent report of
the global Independent Monitoring Board for polio
eradication.

“This is coupled with a substantive investment and efforts to improve routine immunisation, with the development of a new routine immunisation framework and the Save One Million Lives Initiative lead by the government of Nigeria.”

It said that the number of un-immunised children through routine immunisation had declined in the past several months due to increased focus on improved routine services.

“The WHO and UNICEF are committed to continue
supporting the government of Nigeria in their effort to
improve the well-being of women and children,’’ the
statement added.

(NAN)

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Great news.
But my problem is with the governors of states where cases of polio is still being reported. What really do those governors do with their funds and time? Aren't they embarrassed that polio is still reported in their state? And the governors of two the states mentioned (Borno and Yobe) are supposed to be part of Tambuwai's "formidable team" that will rescue Nigeria in 2015. Smh!

Sincere 9gerian: Great news.
But my problem is with the governors of states where cases of polio is still being reported. What really do those governors do with their funds and time? Aren't they embarrassed that polio is still reported in their state? And the governors of two the states mentioned (Borno and Yobe) are supposed to be part of Tambuwai's "formidable team" that will rescue Nigeria in 2015. Smh!

You are a nonentity! Must you play politics with everything? Someone brought good news about 50% in polio eradication but you decided to politicize it and brought Tambuwal into it. Have you no shame?

sincerenigerian:


You are a nonentity! Must you play politics with everything? Someone brought good news about 50% in polio eradication but you decided to politicize it and brought Tambuwal into it. Have you no shame?

Go and create a unique ID for yourself and stop this impersonation...if you can do this on a public forum which doesn't add much gain to your life,it shows how much of a fraud you can be in real life...

awodman:
Go and create a unique ID for yourself and stop this impersonation...if you can do this on a public forum which doesn't add much gain to your life,it shows how much of a fraud you can be in real life...

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