AS Nigeria celebrates removal of the country from the list of polio endemic countries, the Federal Government has been urged to dedicate the global feat to the memories of all the health workers, particularly the vaccination health workers who were gruesomely murdered in the course of vaccinating children. 

 

Making the call in a telephone chat with Vanguard, Vice President, Commonwealth Medical Association, Dr. Osahon Enabulele maintained that all the slain polio vaccinators remain Niqeria's heroes in her war against polio, and therefore deserve to be immortalised. 

 

Enabulale also called on the government and its implementing agency, National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, NPHCDA, not to rest on their oars, but to make improved efforts in the current polio campaign. 

 

 

There is need for the country to consolidate on the present gains through sustained and focused political commitment to the health sector and the polio campaign. 

 

"Sincere and sustained improvement in the Public health system, particularly Nigeria's weak Primary Healthcare System, expeditious implementation of the National Health Act, provision of better security cover for healthcare workers in all public health facilities in Nigeria, as well as sustained commitment of all stakeholders, induding Professional Associations in the health sector, among others is one sure way Nigeria can permanently consign the disabling disease of polio to the dustbin of history. 

 

"This feat which has been achieved despite the numerous challenges which has befuddled Nigeria's health sector and her polio campaign, is a manifestation of the top level political commitment to the polio campaign by the government, particularly the immediate past government and the resilience and commitment of health care workers despite recurring threats to their lives. 

 

By: Vanguard