Nigeria on The Edge of Been Declared Polio-Free

The head of the primary health care agency, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, said Nigeria had reached a “historic milestone.”

The country has gone three years without a case of polio, putting it on the edge of being declared free of the disease.

This is a considerable change from 2012 when Nigeria accounted for more than half of all polio cases worldwide, the World Health Organization says.

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But it will be several months before the country can officially be declared polio-free, though the first criteria, no case for three years, has been achieved.

The WHO now needs to make sure there is a robust surveillance system in Nigeria to be certain that there are no more cases of the polio virus, chairman of Nigeria’s polio committee, Dr Tunji Funsho, told BBC Newsday.

Nigeria is the last country in Africa to have witnessed a case of polio, though insecurity in the North-east of the country had prevented the polio vaccination programme; the success in fighting the Boko Haram militant group has been cited as one of the reasons behind getting polio under restraint.

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Furthermore, officials have said that political support and an infiltration of funds have also helped immensely.

Source: africacelebrities.com