Nigeria’s Vice President Kashim Shettima has promised that the identified concerns around the financing of primary health centres across the country will be addressed by the administration of President Bola Tinubu.
This is as the Co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, reiterated the commitment of the philanthropic organisation to commit $7 billion to support routine immunisation in the country and the whole of Africa.
Mr Shettima, who identified polio as one of the major primary healthcare challenges in the country, noted the administration is considering providing “timely domestic financing for the procurement of vaccines, which couldn’t have come sooner, to boost our industrial capacity to produce vaccines.”
He said this on Thursday at a parley attended by governors under the auspices of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF), the Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, and the business mogul and founder of Dangote…