The Federal Government on Wednesday said N2.8m doses of vaccines will soon be delivered to tackle the outbreak of meningitis in some states in the country.

Executive Secretary of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Faisal Shuaibu, told the House of Representatives Committee on Health Care Services in Abuja that the vaccines were expected from the United Kingdom and India.

Shuaibu, who was represented by the Director of Community Health Services at NPHCDA,  Dr. Emmanuel Odu, did not give the exact date the vaccines  would arrive in Nigeria.

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He explained that while the first batch of 823,000 doses would be supplied by the UK, the second batch of 2m doses would come in from India.

He said, “We are expecting 823,000 doses from the UK any moment from now and that will be delivered to the affected states.

“We have made contacts with the company that manufactures the Type C vaccines in India for 2m doses to be delivered to us.”