Polio: Enugu flags off immunisation in 17 LGAs - The Nation Newspaper

The Executive Secretary, Enugu State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. George Ugwu, disclosed during the flagging off ceremony that the immunization exercise, organized by the state in collaboration with other partners, was part of ongoing measures to rejig primary health care delivery and stamp out polio at the grassroots in the state.

”We are out to ensure, together with our partners that there is no single case of polio in Enugu State and the entire Nigeria.” He further noted that it is good that the Federal and state governments as well as other concerned agencies were working to improve the state of the primary health care sector.

The Permanent Secretary, Enugu State Ministry of Health; Dr. Ifeanyi Agugiobi recalled that it has been eleven years ago since Enugu State recorded its last case of polio and expressed joy “that the Great Health Reformist in the person of Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi; Enugu State Governor has maintained the status quo of “Free-Polio-Enugu State.”

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