By Sadiq Haruna
Even though the federal government of Nigeria, adopted the Push-Plus system of vaccine delivery in 2013, Zamfara State experienced challenges with vaccine supply and availability at the health facility level. This led to large numbers of newborns and infants being completely unvaccinated or not completing the full vaccination course. eHealth Africa began providing third-party logistics (3PL) services to the Zamfara State Primary Health Care Management Board through the Vaccine Direct Delivery project in 2019. Through the service, vaccines are delivered directly to all the government health facilities and 14 local government cold stores in the state.
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