In spite of the the early Monday morning inferno that razed Gombe medical store the Commissioner for Health, Dr Habu Dahiru, says it would carry on with immunisation campaign as scheduled, adding that efforts were on to get support.
Dahiru was reacting to aftermath of the destruction on its N5 billion store, where million of Most Potent Polio Vaccine, including other equipment and commodities were burnt by strange fire.
PERISCOPE NIGERIA reports that the cause of the fire is yet to be explained by men of the service.
According to Dahiru, he has started making contacts with officials at the national office of National Primary Health Care Development Agency to ensure that the Gombe State is not left behind in the polio, meningitis campaign.
He said, “I have just finished finished speaking to the coordinator at the national level for the campaign he promised to send a temporary work-in-store vaccine. We are going to get the required consumables needed to ensure the campaign goes on uninterrupted.”
Speaking earlier during an assessment tour, Governor Muhammadu Yahaya, disclosed that measures were being put in place to unravel the cause and nip in the bud future occurrence.
He said, “Maternal and Child care equipment and also two million doses of polio virus vaccines which are very difficult to come by and this store serves not only Gombe but infact the entire North-East. This is because of the essential commodities but it’s the wish of God, there is nothing we can do.”
