Polio: The Rotarian Conversation with Tunji Funsho

By Rotary International From the November 2015 issue of The Rotarian
In the summer of 2014, Tunji Funsho met a little girl with polio. In his more than 40 years as a physician, he had never had a patient who had just been diagnosed with the virus. The girl turned out to be one of Nigeria’s last children to contract the disease, and the encounter made a powerful impression on Funsho, chair of Rotary’s Nigeria PolioPlus Committee.
Nigeria marked one year without a case of wild poliovirus in July 2015. The next month, Africa as a whole followed suit. This remarkable achievement means that soon there may be only two… …read more

Source:: Rotary.org

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