The federal government has budgeted N10.6 billion for the
transportation of COVID-19 vaccines to the 36 states of the federation and the
federal capital territory.
According to a document seen by PUNCH, a total of N12.7
billion was budgeted as cost of transportation for the vaccine, procurement of
PPE and AEFI kits.
In the document containing the budget details, Kano state
has the highest budgetary allocation with N685.4million, while Lagos state, the
epicenter of the pandemic, earmarked N558.6million for the transportation of
the vaccine.
Bayelsa state has the lowest budgetary allocation for transportation
with N121 million.
The budget was presented to the Nigerian Governors’ Forum
(NGF) alongside representatives of the federal ministry of health, on Thursday,
in a meeting.
On Friday, Nigeria commenced its COVID-19 vaccination with
doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, which was first administered tohealth workers in Abuja.
The vaccination has been divided into phases. One of the
phases includes the distribution of the vaccines to states that have met the
requirements of storage and facilities.
As a result, the National Primary Health Care Development
Agency (NPHCDA), which is the agency responsible for vaccines distribution
strategy, budgeted N1.4billion for procurement of personal protective equipment
(PPE) while N373m was set aside for adverse events following immunisation kits
(AEFI kits).
However, the NGF appealed to the federal government to
support the logistics and inoculation activities to states.
“Following extensive discussions on the vaccine administration,
governors called on the Federal Government to take necessary steps to support
logistics and inoculation activities in states and resolved to take the
following actions to ensure a smooth vaccine roll-out exercise across the
country,” Kayode Fayemi, chairman of NGF, noted in a communiqué.
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