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Meningitis vaccination is free, says FG

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The Federal Government on Friday said vaccination for
meningitis is free throughout the country and asked
Nigerians not to pay for it.
The Executive Director, National Primary Healthcare
Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Faisal Shuaib, said
this in a statement made available to newsmen on
Friday in Abuja.
Shuaib therefore advised Nigerians to report any health
centre or health worker who extorts money for the on-
going meningitis immunisation to the nearest law
enforcement agency.
He said the attention of the agency had been drawn to a
report of sharp practices by some health workers and
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) extorting money
unsuspecting and desperate citizens.
He added that some health workers were alleged to
have extorted money and other forms of incentives from
members of the public before being vaccinated against
Cerebro Spinal Meningitis (CSM).
Shuaib said that the vaccination against CSM, like other
vaccination in the National Immunization schedule, is
free by the Federal Government of Nigeria.
“The Federal Government had spent billions of Naira to
procure, store, maintain and distribute such vaccines to
all parts of the country.
“Under no circumstances should any health worker
demand for money from members of the public for such
services,’’ he warned.
According to him, the vaccines’ preventable diseases are
covered free-of-charge under the National Immunisation
schedule which includes Bacillus Calmette Guerin –
(BCG), Poliomyelitis and Hepatitis B.
Others are Diphtheria, Pertussis and Tetanus toxoid -
(Pentavelent vaccines), Haemophilus influenza type B,
Pneumococcal vaccines, Inactivated Polio virus vaccines,
Measles, Yellow Fever and of course, Meningitis
vaccines.
The sequence to the outbreak of meningitis in some
parts of the country, the federal government had made
available 500,000 doses of meningitis vaccines.
The government is still expecting the delivery of
additional 823,000 doses to curtail the outbreak.
The residents of Kubwa, FCT-Abuja, have alleged that
they were being charged N500 by vaccinators per
person before receiving the CSM vaccine.
Some residents who spoke to newsmen said that they
did not understand the rationale behind the fee, when the
federal government had announced that the
immunisation was free.

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