The federal government at the weekend said it was already rolling out plans to eradicate Wild Polio Virus (WPV) from Nigeria once and for all.
While addressing a Press Conference to update the media on the government's response to the recent Polio outbreak in the Northeast, the Acting Executive Director of National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Emmanuel Odu said the bulk of the fund needed for the intervention has been released.
He said the government budgeted and released a total of N9.8 billion for Polio eradication and immunization this year.
It would be recalled that after being free from Polio for two years, Nigeria recorded three new cases of the virus between July and August this year in Borno State.
But Dr. Odu said: "In the immediate response Mop-up targeting 5 local government areas, 820, 000 eligible children were vaccinated."
He added that the first round, involving five contiguous and very high risk states, achieved the vaccination of 5.9 million eligible children.
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