Rotary Spends $200m To Tackle Polio In Nigeria

Over $200m has been
spent by the Rotary Foundation to tackle the scourge of polio in Nigeria.
Similarly, more than $600 million was also spent by the foundation to prosecute the fight against polio in the rest of  Africa, bringing the total sum spent to eradicate polio on the continent to $800 million.
A former District Governor of the club, Sir G.T.G Toby, who made the disclosure in an interview with newsmen at the induction ceremony of the Rotary Club of Port Harcourt, at the weekend, said that, if by September this year, no new cases of polio are recorded in the country, Nigeria and the rest of Africa would be decalred polio-free by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Toby, who was a two-term former Deputy Governor of Rivers State, said that, the development showed the extent to which the club had expended its resources in efforts to tackle the challenges of polio as well as advance the cause of humanity.
He said that apart from the polio eradication campaign, the Rotary Club has also partnered with the World Health Organisation  and the Centre for Disease Control of the United States to check the outbreak of diseases.
Toby said that the club has involved in peace building across the globe, while seminars have been organised for budding entrepreneurs in the society.
Meanwhile, the newly inducted President of the Rotary Club of Port Harcourt, District 9140, Rotarian Anne Anyaka, has pledge to continue with the club’s programme for the less-privileged in the society.
Speaking shortly after her induction  at the weekend in Port Harcourt, Rotarian  Anyaka ,  said that the on-going four projects at the Trans-Amadi Police Station would be completed, while toilet facilities with warhead tanks would be built and donated to two Girls Secondary Schools in Port Harcourt.