FG, others target 50m kids in fresh anti-polio immunisation
Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:43
Written by http://www.informationnigeria.org/
Undettered by the security challenges in some of the polio endemic states in the country, the Federal Government, in collaboration with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF), will tomorrow begin a three-day nationwide Immunisation Plus Days (IPDs) targeting 50 million children under the age of five with bivalent Oral Polio Vaccine (bOPV).
The government has also promised that the security challenges raised by the Boko Haram sect will not stop the polio immunisation campaign in the affected states, even as it set up a special team to cover the sensitive states.
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