He made the assertion yesterday in Abuja at the Nigeria Polio Summit organized by Rotary International in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health. The president who was represented by the health minister, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu, said that the federal government was increasing surveillance and routine immunization in border communities while collaborating with border countries to checkmate and prevent further spread and transmission of the virus from countries like Cameroon which just suffered an outbreak.
“My administration through the Ministry of Health, the Polio Task Force, and the Emergency Operational Centre of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency shall continue to drive this programme nationwide,” he said. We will continue to do our best to ensure the required funding for the polio eradication programme is provided, and I am sure the coordinating minister for the economy is doing her utmost best, to ensure all our pledges are fulfilled.”
He therefore called on state governors to continue to provide personal leadership in their states for the pogramme by requesting and reviewing monthly reports from the LGA chairpersons, on the progress being made in their respective domain.
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