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“The staff at the health centre just asked for my personal details before collecting a sum of 1,000 naira (about US$5) for the card … I was never vaccinated!”
Seyi Ogundoro, independent e-commerce consultant
Map Showing Yellow fever belt in Sub-Saharan Africa. Photo Crredit: CDC
The most devastating outbreak of the last century occurred in the mid-80s but today, it still afflicts about 200,000 people a year, with 90 per cent of reported cases occurring in Africa, the WHO adds.
The yellow card investigation
“There’s nothing wrong with private clinics giving the vaccine. That’s how we can get everybody vaccinated but it must be regulated.”
Tomori Oyewale, The Nigerian Academy of Science
A need for regulation
Yellow fever Vaccination Sattistics
Tomori agrees. “The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) is charged with ensuring people all over the country are vaccinated,” he says.
Action from embarrassment
References
Abiose Adelaja尼日利亚n govt puts millions of children in danger as country runs out of vaccines(Premium Times, 16 February 2014)
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