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Health

Polio Torch In Nigeria, As India Pledges Assistance

by The Daily Eye Team April 28 2015, 3:14 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 35 secs

With Nigeria now in the eighth month since the last recorded infection of poliovirus, a global End Polio Now Torch has reached the country to help raise funds against the virus. The torch is a Rotary International?? attempt to fund global anti-polio efforts as it passes through cities??nd the three polio-endemic countries of Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan??efore reaching the organisation?? convention in Sao Paolo this June. The ??lame??--like the Olympic torch--was lit last December in Chennai, India to commemorate India?? becoming polio-free and ??o promote the need to go the last mile in the battle to eradicate this horrible crippling disease,??said Mogboyi Omatsola, governor of Rotary?? Abuja district.

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