Nigeria's War on Polio

Six years ago, Muslims in northern Nigeria formed a boycott of polio vaccinations because they claimed they were a Western plot to infect them with AIDS. The number of crippled children doubled in result of this. Now, after another tripling of polio cases, an anti-polio group is rising to clear the country of this disease. People crowd the streets to urge parents to get their children vaccinated at one of the hundreds of provided vaccination centers. This movement has increased the number of vaccinated by 26%. There is a fear that polio could be spread to surrounding countries, destroying their multibillion dollar plan to wipe the disease from the globe.


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This relates to what we have been learning in class because of different views on society by different religions. Some Muslims do not support getting children immunized, whereas others track down kids who have no recieved the vaccination. Getting rid of polio in Nigeria is important because it could easily spread around the globe, crippling many.

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Govt to upgrade seven specialist hospitals

The Federal Government has decided to upgrade seven speacialist hospitals across the country in order to advance their health care programs. They hope to provide advanced health services to Nigerians which will stop many Nigerians from traveling abroad for medical attention. The minister of Health, Dr. Aliyu Idi Hong pointed out the priority of upgrading the nations hospitals in Nigeria's 2009 fiscal budget. The main goal will be to provide more facilities and to retrain the medical personnel that they already have.

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This article reveals Nigeria's strive to become a more modernized and healthy power. But it also reveals the difficulties that the nation has been having with it's health care system. Nevertheless, they are making all the necessary decisions in order to improve their health systems.

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