The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has called on the federal and state governments not to relent in the campaigns and vaccination to totally eradicate the wild polio virus.
He acknowledged that it was difficult to spend time and money on vaccinations when there has been no case in over 30 months, but warned that if any new case is recorded as a result of reduced vaccination, then Nigeria would be back to square one. “The risk when you get so close and people don’t see any case is that there would be a slowdown in vaccination campaigns.“We have also seen in the last few months, unfortunately, some cases of when you have very low immunization rates, lower than expected, you see a spread of some related polio.
He greatly commended the governments at all levels for the amazing work that had been done so far, stressing that it was only through good leadership that the nation had come thus far in the fight. “It has been the lack of full energy about the revaccination campaigns, all we need to do is to go and do emergency campaigns where there have been cases.
“So far, the news is good, we want you to be optimistic but we also want to be vigilant,” he stressed.
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