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| Child being immunized during the recent outbreak of Cerebrospinal Meningitis |
•Nigeria Depends 100% On Imported Vaccines, 75% On Donor
Funds •Blame It On Greed, Corruption And Misplacement Of Priorities •Canvass
Road Map To Resuscitation Of FVPL, Yaba; NVRI, Vom
Stakeholders in the
healthcare industry are worried that more than 30 years after batches of vaccines
were rolled out of the Federal Vaccine Production Laboratory (FVPL) Yaba,
Lagos, to contain the 1986 yellow fever outbreak, the country’s capacity to
continue production of vaccines locally has grounded at zero level.
