Senator Kashim Shettima @officialSKSM

WE ARE GOING TO ADDRESS THE CONCERNS THAT SURROUND FINANCING OUR PRIMARY HEALTHCARE SYSTEM - VP @KashimSM

@gatesfoundation to Spend $7 Billion on Interventions In Next Four Years

We are going to address the concerns that surround the financing of our primary healthcare system in the country, says Vice President Sen. @KashimSM.

The Vice President who noted that polio is one of the major primary healthcare challenges in the country disclosed that “the proposal is to provide timely domestic financing for the procurement of vaccines, which couldn’t have come sooner, to boosting our industrial capacity to produce vaccines.”

He stated this today at a parley with some Governors under the auspices of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Alhaji Aliko Dangote and Bill Gates at the Banquet Hall, Presidential Villa, Abuja.

While acknowledging the threats facing Nigeria in the area of polio, he averred that Nigeria’s three dose pentavalent vaccine coverage has improved from 33% in 2016 to 57% in 2021.

He stated further that “the variant polio virus has declined in Nigeria by 84% from 2021, falling to fewer than 200 cases in 2022. He therefore commended the states that have achieved high category immunization coverage, which is between 60% and 80% of the target demographic and the number of states has expanded from 12 to 21 states in five years.”

Giving further assurance, he said, “the Federal Government and our respective state governments are going to set in place a transparent process and structure to undo the reality of the country as one with one of the highest proportions of non-immunized infants in the world over the last decade.”

Vice President @KashimSM stressed that the Federal Government is “committed to eradicating variant polio virus by the end of the year ensuring that every Nigerian child is covered in the routine immunization campaigns.”

On the issue of production of vaccines for immunization of children, he assured that “we are going to work together to ensure that these vaccines are made available even to zero-dose children, of which ours, at 2 million, are the highest in the world after India.”

The Vice President then expressed the appreciation of the Federal Government to partners such as Alhaji Aliko Dangote’s Foundation and that of Bill Gates Foundation, whose empathy shone through that uncertain period in our history.

Earlier in his remarks at the interactive session, Mr. @BillGates disclosed that his foundation had recently announced the intention to commit $7 billion to Africa in the next four years; to support routine immunization in Nigeria, and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in Northern Nigeria.

Also in his remarks, Alhaji Aliko Dangote stated that Bill Gates and himself have been partnering with both the Federal and State Governments for several years, supporting the efforts in eradicating polio and improving routine immunization, nutrition and primary healthcare in the country.

“We genuinely believe that the National Economic Council and the decisions that you will make over the next four years will determine whether Nigeria has sound economic growth, keep its citizens happy and achieving the sustainable development goals,” he added.

In separate remarks, the Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Alhaji @RealAARahman and some Governors who spoke at the parley lauded the philanthropic interventions of the Dangote and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations in critical areas including healthcare, education, agriculture and human capital development.

The Governors expressed the readiness to further collaborate with the Dangote and Gates Foundation in the coming years.

Olusola Abiola
Director Information
Office of the Vice President
June 22, 2023

https://twitter.com/officialSKSM/status/1671913005116796936

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Nice one from able Vp

Jestin:
They have started again with WE WILL
WE SHALL
WE ARE GOING TO

Subsidy removal no be we will
Removal of the security chiefs no be procrastination.

Better Nigeria ahead with Tinubu/Shettima presidency

They have started again with WE WILL
WE SHALL
WE ARE GOING TO

the solution to our problem lies in our hands not in bill gate's hand.
we must do the right thing by electing the right people, policy must be put in place to make elections transparent and also for inec not to select leaders for us.

As you have done in Borno when you were a Governor?

Damnnn niggar

You and tinubu ain't gonna address no shit

VP with the vibes

Cat no dey for house rat don become king

God bless President TINUBU, God bless Vice President Shettima, God bless all lovers of Nigeria and genuine Nigerians.

Talk is cheap.

Them don start with this abbreviation again

All of una don kolo

ok

Pressure on them… let’s keep pressing. They must do the right thing … obidients are the only opposition right now.. don’t give up guys. Keep pressing their neck

That will be great… 😊

welcomed development

NIGERIANS ARE TIRED OF PROMISES,

THEY WANT POSITIVE RESULTS.







THANKS TO ALL THE NAIRALANDERS PREACHERS AND EVANGELISTS KEEP IT UP.



JESUS IS LORD

WEALTH IS GOOD.

Earlier in his remarks at the interactive session, Mr. @BillGates disclosed that his foundation had recently announced the intention to commit $7 billion to Africa in the next four years; to support routine immunization in Nigeria, and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in Northern Nigeria.

But why Bill Gates dey always carry this immunization of a thing for head like say na do or die affair

We are waiting

fastseo:
the solution to our problem lies in our hands not in bill gate's hand.
we must do the right thing by electing the right people, policy must be put in place to make elections transparent and also for inec not to select leaders for us.

Such policy can only be put in place by leaders who were genuinely elected by the majority.

naptu2:
Senator Kashim Shettima @officialSKSM



https://twitter.com/officialSKSM/status/1671913005116796936

Money is Not Enough.


Make Sure You All Start By CORRECTING The DECAY in The Behaviour of VILE and EVIL Nurses and Doctors in The Health Sector.

There is A Need To Correct The EMPATHY QUOTIENT (EQ) of Many Nurses and Doctors in Nigeria.


They Are MONEY GLUTTONS and They Prefer To Enrich Themselves Instead of Attending To PATIENTS in DIRE NEED of Care.




I Lost My First Unborn Child To Death Last Week (June, 14, 2023) Due To The Over 2 Hours Delay and HOSTILITY of The Nurses on Duty on This Very Day.





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https://www.nairaland.com/7735609/family-cookhathon-poverty-alleviation-nigeria

Words! Words!! Words!!!

Just do it!!! Then come show us your scorecards!

Buhari started this "we will"He didn't fulfil anything.

Allow Primary Health Care to be autonomous

The local Government Chairmen are killing the sector

2323$

Hmmmm

Dem don wan bill gates reduce our population with 7billion dollars.

Just joking

Congrats to our spineless leaders for pledging to sign away our children as lab rats and compromise our future to Bill Gate's not so secret vaccine agenda. When will Africa & Africans wake up? Those who can independently inform themselves will confirm that there is a population control agenda from BG's vaccine drive. I wouldn't touch that guy's money with a barge pole but our greedy leaders, what concerns them?