{"id":12963,"date":"2018-10-25T21:35:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T21:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=12963"},"modified":"2018-10-25T21:35:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T21:35:28","slug":"why-nigeria-is-with-afghanistan-and-pakistan-as-countries-with-polio-rotary-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=12963","title":{"rendered":"Why Nigeria is with Afghanistan and Pakistan as countries with Polio &#8211; Rotary International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0<strong>Wole Adedeji<\/strong>, Ilorin\u200e<br \/>\nNigeria is witb Afghanistan and Pakistan as the only three nations in the world where polio is yet to be eradicated because of the insurgency there, the Rotary Club International has said.<br \/>\nChairman of the Rotary Polio Eradication Committee in Kwara State Otunba Rick Oladele made the disclosure at the Palace of the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari.<br \/>\nOladele led his committee members to intimate the Emir of the Rotary Clubs in Kwara on plans to immunise 5, 000 children in Ilorin and other parts of Kwara against Polio to celebrate this year&#8217;s World Polio Eradication \u00a0Day.<br \/>\nHe lamented that polio cases were particularly prevalent in the North East states of Nigeria because of the activities of insurgents which made it difficult for global and local health \u00a0aid workers to function.<br \/>\nHe told the Emir that the\u00a0committee was in the palace for the the Emir&#8217;s royal blessing as the immunisation exercise commences\u00a0this Saturday.<br \/>\nOladele also told the Emir that the committee relied on the Emir to through his chiefs\u00a0reach communities in Ilorin Emirate \u00a0to bring their children out for immunisation against Polio.<br \/>\nNigeria clocked two and half years of being polio-free before a case of the virus was discovered in Gere local government of Borno State.<br \/>\nAccording to him, Polio reared its ugly head back in North East because of the crisis there, adding that the virus still also exist in volatile areas of the world like Pakistan, and Afghanistan.<br \/>\n\u201cPolio can be prevented through immunisation of children of five years old and below,\u201d Oladele said.<br \/>\nHe told the Emir that Rotary Club has been spending money since 1985 to produce vaccines to fight the virus among children.<br \/>\n\u201cCost of vaccinating a child is about three dollars which translates to about N1, 080. It is our ambition to see that Polio is eradicated in Nigeria,\u201d Oladele said.<br \/>\nIn his response, Alhaji Sulu-Gambari commended Rotary Club for its resolve to end Polio in the country.<br \/>\nThe Emir assured the committee of his readiness to assist in making the immunisation a huge success.<br \/>\nHe promised to send messages to all chiefs and village heads in the four local governments of the Emirate to mobilise parents to present their children for immunisation on Saturday.<br \/>\n\u201cGod will reward you for what you are doing to eradicate polio in the country,\u201d the Emir prayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0Wole Adedeji, Ilorin\u200e Nigeria is witb Afghanistan and Pakistan as the only three nations in the world where polio is yet to be eradicated because of the insurgency there, the Rotary Club International has said. Chairman of the Rotary Polio Eradication Committee in Kwara State Otunba Rick Oladele made the disclosure at the Palace of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5773],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}