World Malaria Day: Abia will not key into local treatment ― Health Commissioner

Abia State government says it will not key into the local treatment of malaria. The state commissioner for health, Dr Joe Osuji disclosed this in Umuahia, on Tuesday, during the occasion of the 2022 World Malaria Day celebration, stating “the state government cannot buy into the local way of treating malaria.”

According to him, though malaria drugs were produced from the local tree “Dogon Yaro”, the local administration has no scientific dosage, even when chloroquine came out of the tree and is effective.

The state, he said, is the first to pay its own counterpart fund and has distributed mosquito nets, adding “I hope Nigeria will join in the acquisition of vaccine against malaria as has been done in some countries in Africa.”

Also speaking, the project manager, State Malaria Eradication Program (SMEP), Comrade Obasi Ude Arua said the state government has demonstrated its political will to ensure that malaria is kicked out of the state.

Arua said the state will key into malaria vaccine when the country acquires it, adding “We are expecting the vaccine importation into Nigeria. When the country does so, we will buy into it.”

He said the malaria scourge is endemic, hence the need for people to sleep inside mosquito nets, stating that the state is number one in readiness to implement the program.

Also speaking, the executive secretary, Abia State Primary Health Care Development Agency (ABSPHDA), Dr Chinagozi Adindu described malaria as “a socio-economic threat to the country” and is an agent of sicknesses and death, pointing out that it is not caused by excess oil in the body but through mosquito bites.

The global fight against malaria she said, is a fight against poverty and dirty environments and challenges governments and international organizations to stand up and fight the scourge.

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