Gombe to benefit from EU immunisation project

Gombe State is to benefit from the European Union’s seven year project on strengthening routine immunization services.   Twenty-three other states are to benefit from the scheme.

Executive Secretary, Gombe State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Ahmed Gana, disclosed this while speaking during the official launching of the programmer in Gombe.

The EU programme which is in collaboration with the Federal Government is aimed at providing sustainable quality routine immunization services and support interruption of wild polio virus.

He said Gombe has been polio free since 2013 which led to the attraction of development partners like Bill Gate Foundation into the State which supported the state with over 15 million dollars for the establishment of village Health Workers Programmer.

Details in Daily Times newspaper