Nigeria: 'Yellow Card Distribution Hampered'

Distribution of the new International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis (ICV-P) otherwise known as Yellow Card in Nigeria is being frustrated by shortage of personnel, the federal government said yesterday.

Dr. Sani Gwarzo of the Department of Port Health Services (PHS) who was speaking during a sensitisation workshop organised for stakeholders on the new security featured Yellow Card yesterday in Abuja, lamented that inadequate personnel, unenforceable and obsolete laws, activities of fraudsters, among others were hindering the exercise.

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