Tag: polio
Polio: Gates Foundation lauds Borno Govt. over immunization campaign
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has commended the Borno State Government over its commitments to eradicating polio disease in…
Polio: Lagos to issue executive order compelling private schools to allow access to officers
The Lagos State Government has disclosed that it would soon give an Executive Order that will compel operators of private…
Gov Abiodun Flags Off Campaign Against Polio
Adejoke Adeleye/Abeokuta The Ogun State Governor Prince Dapo Abiodun has pledged his administration’s unwavering commitment towards revamping the health care…
Rotary announces US$100 million to eradicate polio
Rotary is giving US$100 million in grants to support the global effort to end polio, a vaccine-preventable disease that once…
Polio: Govt mobilises 1,685 personnel for house-to-house vaccination in Adamawa
The Chairman, State Taskforce on Immunization, and also the Deputy Governor of Adamawa, Mr Martins Babale, said 1,685 personnel are…
Polio: LASG to immunise children aged 0-5
The Lagos State Government will embark on House to House polio Immunisation for all children aged 0-five years, irrespective of…
Medical practitioner calls for a polio-free Nigeria
Dr Towoju Olumunyiwa, a medical practitioner with National Hospital, Abuja, has called on Federal Government to embrace measures that could…
Lassa fever outbreak: Kwara health workers suspend indefinite strike
The Congress of the Coalition of Health Sector Unions (COHESU), Kwara branch, has suspended its indefinite strike due to the…
War against polio: Nomadic group leads campaign in Kano
An amalgamation of nomadic groups in Kano State have formed a platform, Nomadic Jauros for Health, to fight against polio…
Gu Fangzhou: The man who saved millions of children from polio
‘The Polio Terminator’ Gu Fangzhou He was regarded as ‘the father of sugar pills’ in China as a result of…
Polio: WHO immunises 79,000 children in FCT
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it immunised about 79, 000 children of below five years against polio during the…
Polio: WHO tells parents to embrace immunization
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called on parents in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), to ensure that children are…
Polio: Kano Govt urge parents to embrace immunisation
The Kano State Government has urged parents to embrace routine immunisation to keep their children fit and immune to child-killer…
Jigawa Polio-free for 6 years – Official
Dr Kabir Ibrahim, the Executive Secretary, Jigawa Primary Healthcare Development Agency (JSPHDA) says that state has not recorded any new…
How Africa can earn polio-free certification – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said Africa stood the chance of being certified polio-free by the end of 2019 or…