Second richest man in the world and Co-founder ofBill and Melinda Gates Foundation,Bill Gates, has described Nigeriaas one of the most difficult countries to eradicate the polio disease. Gates stated this when hespoke at the joint forum of the Common wealth Heads of Government Meeting in West minster yesterday April 17th.
According to the billionaire and philantropist, India, Nigeria and Pakistanhave proven to be the most difficult places to wipe out the disease but that Nigeria has done well by learning some steps from India.
“If you want to do something better, find out who is already doing better than anyone else in the world, and adopt what they are doing, to your own challenges. The Commonwealth is ideal forthis and you have positive outliers in almost every area of expertise, and you meet regularly to learn from one another. Polio eradication is a great example of this. For different reasons, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, are three of the places it has been most difficult to wipe out this disease. But India was declared Polio-free in 2014.The lessons learnt from there have helped Nigeria get to zero cases in 2017. And now Pakistan, which still has few cases, very few, is taking those experiences, particularly at the challenges of dealingwith insecurity, and they have their cases down to the lowest areas ever. So, this success really goes back to the substantial commitments made in partat the Commonwealth meetings. Collectively, Commonwealth nations are experts in far more than just polio eradication.Nobody else is better in the world at education thanSingapore. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have built very high quality primary healthcare systems, staffedprimarily by women healthcare workers.” he said
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