The executive director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, has said to permanently stop the spread of polio in Nigeria a, the sum of $274 million will be needed from foreign donors in 2016 for the campaign.
Also, the sum of $287 million will be needed in the year 2017 for the same purpose as statistics indicate that the sum of N40,000 will be needed for the vaccination of an individual child.
The NPHCDA Boss revealed this on Tuesday, April 12, in Abuja at the pre-event press conference for the anglophone Africa peer review workshop on sustainable immunization financing.
“Nigeria has few months to go before it can be verified a polio-free country. The sum of $274 million will be required for polio campaign in 2016.”
