Kogi State received a total number of 50,300 doses (5030 vials) of COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine for its first Phase vaccination which were exhausted.
While the State awaits delivery of vaccines for the second Phase, the Primary Health Care Development Agency took to the destruction of the empty vials from the first phase.
In company of the Executive Director KSPHCDA- Dr Abubakar Yakubu to supervise the destruction process were UNICEF VSL – Mr Olumide Adeyeye, SC WHO – Pharm Ken Adejo, SC AFENET Nigeria – Dr Felix Mbodi, WHO STA – Mr Obute, UNICEF C4D State Facilitator – Mr Felix Okocha, the SIO – Mrs Ajuma Apeh, the SCCO – Mrs Adagiri Bilikisu, the PM IMPACT – Mr Olorunmaiye Theophilus Ade, the PM SERICC – Mrs Khadijat Garuba and a host of other Programme Officers.
The exercise was carried out on the 10th of August, 2021.