The district governor of Rotary International in District 9125, Rtn Sagab Ahmed Sani, has said Nigeria should be optimistic and hopeful that an end to polio is in sight.
Ahmed said Rotary International aimed to see a polio-free world with the efforts that began in the early 1980s in 200 endemic countries.According to him, with Rotary's Polio Eradication Initiative's house-to-house campaign, a lot of ground has been covered in the endemic countries, except in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"The government is heavily involved in the efforts. Governments of countries that have taken on the Polio Eradication Initiative that Rotary initiated and the government of Nigeria particularly has been doing well because all the main relevant government agencies have identified with it and the National Primary Health Care Development Agency is doing all it can to ensure that polio is eradicated," he noted.
On his part, the chairman, Nigerian National Polio Plus Committee, Rotary International, Joshua Hassan, said the World Polio Day is a day set aside to celebrate those who worked tirelessly and have donated so much to make sure that they end polio in the world.
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