The federal government on Monday, commenced the Mpox vaccination in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The director, disease control and immunisation, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Rufai Garba, told our correspondent that vaccination against Mpox will also commence is the states soon.
NPHCDA had said in October that seven states were selected for the vaccination.
It listed the states as Bayelsa, Rivers, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Enugu, Benue, and the FCT, adding that an average of 631 persons were expected to be vaccinated across the seven states with two doses of the Mpox vaccine.
Meanwhile, Dr. Garba said that vaccination could not commence in the states today because movement of vaccines require special condition.
“We have started in Abuja today. The vaccines, we need to move them to other states and they need special condition to be moved. So once we put all that in place, we will commence vaccination in other states, he explained.
Recall that Nigeria received 10,000 doses of the Mpox vaccine, out of which it gave 1,000 to Rwanda,
“We don’t have outbreak of Mpox. However, our plan is to prioritise frontline health workers and populations in communities bordering outbreak countries, said NPHCDA executive director, Dr. Muyi Aina.
