Environmental sanitation remains the best measure to fight malaria - Minister
Environment Minister Mohammed Abdullahi said the best measure to rid our environment of malaria is to maintain a clean environment.
He noted that the federal government was already partnering with local and international organizations to build consensus that would evolve sustainable technology to fight the disease in Nigeria.
According to him, Nigeria has the highest malaria burden in the world with annual reported cases of 51 million and 207,000 deaths, accounting for nearly 30% of the total malaria burden in Africa.
“It is also estimated that nearly 173 million Nigerians are at risk of infection. This alarming situation brings with it economic consequences – absence from work of infected adults and absence from school of infected schoolchildren are fundamental and important aspects of concern due to the resulting high rate of loss of working hours.
"Similarly, Nigerians are estimated to lose money amounting to hundreds of billions of naira, if each infected person treats only one episode of malaria with an average of two thousand naira twice a year ."
Several efforts are being made at the international, national and local levels to fight the scourge of malaria. It is a global challenge. We are therefore also collaborating with outside scientists to develop a vaccine that is quite effective in the treatment of malaria.
"It was only recently that the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency Muhammadu Buhari, inaugurated the Nigeria End Malaria Council (NEMC) where he mandated him to ensure the implementation successful implementation of the council's program which is expected to result in savings of N2 trillion naira on the estimated economic burden of disease by 2030.
"It remains essential that, hierarchically, effective mosquito control takes the form of exclusion: the removal of suitable vector habitat through healthy hygiene and sanitation that arrests breeding by preventing egg-laying; lifecycle control — larvicide, to reduce/eliminate egg hatch; and oil and adulticide which are used to control pupacity and adulthood respectively.
“By nature, mosquitoes need a filthy, filthy and unmaintained environment to survive and breed in the process of metamorphosis,” and urged Nigerians to maintain a clean environment to control the disease.
>The press conference was jointly presented by Environment Minister Mohammed Abdullahi and Health Minister Osagie Ehanire, who maintained that the vaccine for children does not work in isolation but in combination with other other measures.
He was represented at the joint press conference by Perpetual Uhomoibhi, National Coordinator, National Malaria Elimination Program (NMEP), Federal Ministry of Health.
The Minister noted that trial countries for malaria vaccines for children are considered priority countries in distribution, but when high burden countries are noted, Nigeria would be listed to benefit from the vaccines for children and it would go around the country.< /p>
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Environment Minister Mohammed Abdullahi said the best measure to rid our environment of malaria is to maintain a clean environment.
He noted that the federal government was already partnering with local and international organizations to build consensus that would evolve sustainable technology to fight the disease in Nigeria.
According to him, Nigeria has the highest malaria burden in the world with annual reported cases of 51 million and 207,000 deaths, accounting for nearly 30% of the total malaria burden in Africa.
“It is also estimated that nearly 173 million Nigerians are at risk of infection. This alarming situation brings with it economic consequences – absence from work of infected adults and absence from school of infected schoolchildren are fundamental and important aspects of concern due to the resulting high rate of loss of working hours.
"Similarly, Nigerians are estimated to lose money amounting to hundreds of billions of naira, if each infected person treats only one episode of malaria with an average of two thousand naira twice a year ."
Several efforts are being made at the international, national and local levels to fight the scourge of malaria. It is a global challenge. We are therefore also collaborating with outside scientists to develop a vaccine that is quite effective in the treatment of malaria.
"It was only recently that the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency Muhammadu Buhari, inaugurated the Nigeria End Malaria Council (NEMC) where he mandated him to ensure the implementation successful implementation of the council's program which is expected to result in savings of N2 trillion naira on the estimated economic burden of disease by 2030.
"It remains essential that, hierarchically, effective mosquito control takes the form of exclusion: the removal of suitable vector habitat through healthy hygiene and sanitation that arrests breeding by preventing egg-laying; lifecycle control — larvicide, to reduce/eliminate egg hatch; and oil and adulticide which are used to control pupacity and adulthood respectively.
“By nature, mosquitoes need a filthy, filthy and unmaintained environment to survive and breed in the process of metamorphosis,” and urged Nigerians to maintain a clean environment to control the disease.
>The press conference was jointly presented by Environment Minister Mohammed Abdullahi and Health Minister Osagie Ehanire, who maintained that the vaccine for children does not work in isolation but in combination with other other measures.
He was represented at the joint press conference by Perpetual Uhomoibhi, National Coordinator, National Malaria Elimination Program (NMEP), Federal Ministry of Health.
The Minister noted that trial countries for malaria vaccines for children are considered priority countries in distribution, but when high burden countries are noted, Nigeria would be listed to benefit from the vaccines for children and it would go around the country.< /p>
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