Awka— ANAMBRA and 22 other states and Abuja are to benefit from N12.21 billion (EUR55 million) four-year European Union Support to Immunisation Governance in Nigeria, EU-SIGN.
Vanguard recalls that Anambra State government and the National Planning Commission/European Union had signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, in 2013 for the implementation of the project in the state.
Essentially, the objective is to mobilize stakeholders to support immunization programmes in the affected states, with a view to ensuring the reduction of childhood mortality in Nigeria due to vaccine preventable diseases.
The programme will also aim at improving delivery of routine immunisation services by expanding the vaccine cold chain system and transportation.
In Anambra State, three local government areas from each of the three senatorial zones namely, Aguata for Anambra South, Anaocha for Anambra Central and Ayamelum for Anambra North, have been selected for special consideration for the project.
At the launching of the project in Awka, yesterday, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Josephat Akabuike, said the state government has procured 190 solar powered refrigerators to be distributed to primary health care centres to supplement cold chain systems that had gone bad.
The procurement, he said, became necessary, following reports that of the 465 cold chain equipment in the state, 234 were not functional, while 29 had become obsolete.
Source:Vanguard
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