The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, (NAFDAC) alongside the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has destroyed one million, sixty-six thousand, two hundred and fourteen (1,066,214) doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
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These are part of the two million, five – ninty-four thousand one hundred,(594,100) doses of vaccines received on the 11th and 29th October of 2021.
One million, five hundred and twenty-seven thousand, eight hundred and Eighty-six of the vaccines (1,527,886) were said to have been utilised.
The batches of the vaccine destroyed got expired in November 2021.
At the event, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) handed the vaccines to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), which, in turn, presented them to the Abuja Environmental Protection Agency to destroy at Gosa Dumpsite, Kilometer 2, near Idu Railway Station, Abuja.
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The destruction was supervised by the Executive Director of NPHCDA Faisal Shuaib and the Director-General of NAFDAC Mojisola Adeyeye.
While speaking to journalists, Shuaib revealed it was an opportunity for Nigerians to have further faith in the country’s vaccination programme “because we have lived up to the expectations of all Nigerians.”
Also speaking was the Director-General of NAFDAC, Mojisola Adeyeye, who said the decision to destroy the vaccines followed several testing processes which were conducted also stressing that it was “necessary to destroy them in order to protect Nigerians from being harmed”.
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