• Success in halting the spread of the wild polio virus through immunisation is one of the significant milestones in Nigeria’s health history since independence.He said that the government needed to put a lot of resources together with its partners to make sure that polio was completely eradicated in Nigeria.
“India was able to eradicate polio in 2012. India is bigger than Nigeria and if we talk of resources, we have enough resources as India, so why can’t we eradicate polio?“Nigeria was about to eradicate polio in 2016, but unfortunately there were diagnosed in Borno and for a country to be free of polio it has to be free for three years.
Olumunyiwa said that even though there had been remarkable progress in the eradication, but 99 per cent success was still a failure.
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