US billionaire and Polio campaign donor in Nigeria, Mr. Bill Gates, Saturday expressed deep concern, describing the apparent terrorist attack against polio vaccinators as a tragedy, and “unacceptable.”
A statement issued Friday night on behalf of Mr. Gates, the US-based Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said of the Kano killing: “Our sympathy goes out to the victims and their families who were caught up in this morning’s terrible attack in Nigeria’s Kano State. “
According to the Foundation, “any attack on health workers anywhere is unacceptable. This tragic incident is an attack on the delivery of basic health services to the most vulnerable families.”
But the Gates Foundation said it would not be deterred in its campaign to help families in Northern Nigeria who need vaccination.
“We will continue to support the people of Nigeria, their traditional and religious leaders, and the Government, in their tireless efforts to create an environment where mothers and children can be safely reached with essential interventions by frontline health workers, such as vaccines to prevent polio, measles, tetanus, diphtheria, whooping cough and hepatitis.”
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