The
Minister of Health, Dr Halliru Alhassan on Thursday says Nigeria will be
certified polio-free this January.
Alhassan
disclosed this to newsmen in Sokoto while reviewing some of the activities of
his ministry in 2014.
According
to him, no case of polio has been recorded in the country in the last six
months, and this qualifies the country to be declared polio-free in line with
global requirements.
“This is
because only six cases of the wild polio virus were recorded in the last six
months in Kano and Jigawa states.
” This
feat is a remarkable departure from the nearly 52 WPV cases the country
recorded during the same period under review in 2013.
“With
this happy development, we are optimistic that Nigeria will be completing the
six months required to be declared polio-free by this month,” the minister
said.
” The
country has indeed made tremendous progress in ensuring the total eradication
of polio and it would be sustained.
” The
Federal Government would sustain these successes; we have eradicated Ebola and
Guinea worm, and polio is on the verge of becoming history in Nigeria,”
Alhassan added.
He
further expressed happiness that the nation was recording massive reduction in
maternal mortality through the support of the Milllenium Development Goals.
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