Nigeria Marks World Pneumonia Day Amid Lamentations

Rabi Abdallah

Nigeria joins the rest of the world Wednesday to commemorate the world Pneumonia day with special attention on immunization. Experts converged on Abuja to brainstorm on financial barriers and other challenges of the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine scheduled for December this year might face.This is against the background that pneumonia remains a leading killer of children under five globally especially in sub-Saharan African and Asia.