KWARA PLANS TO TACKLE MALARIA SCOURGE - Kwara State Government

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KWARA PLANS TO TACKLE MALARIA SCOURGE

Determined to reduce the depressing mortality rate of pregnant women and children under the age of five in Kwara State, the state government has unfolded plans to distribute 700,000 Long Lasting Insecticides Treated Bed Nets 9LLITNS) to the group identified as vulnerable to malaria in the councils in the state.

Already, Sulphadoxin Pyrimethamine (SP) has been procured for 165,000 pregnant women in the state as Intermittent Preventive Treatement (IPT) during the second and third Trimester of pregnancy.

Besides, 487,000 children under the age of five have been pencilled down for free distribution of Artemisinin Combination Therapy (ACT) from now till the expiration of the tenure of office of the Governor Bukola Saraki led administration.

According the state’s Commissioner for Health, Hajia Ayinke Saka, yesterday in Ilorin at a press briefing for a week-long implementation of “Malaria-free Kwara”, the gestures by the state government were aimed at reducing the mortality rate of the vulnerable group by at least 60 percent.

The presentation national statistics on mortality rate of pregnant women and under-five children stand at 185/100,000 and 980/100,000 respectively.

She noted: “the Malaria-free Kwara programme is a carefully packaged strategy designed to provide free malaria free treatment to pregnant women and under-five children initially but to be scaled up later to cover the larger society in a step-wise approach.

“The programme portrays the love and dedication of the governor to the Kwarans generally, especially the vulnerable group who are in dire need of safety nets to improve the state’s health statistics.

Under this, the state government is providing free treatment of malaria for pregnant women and under-five children using synergistic approach of prophylactic and curative methods” she added.

Already, some collaborative health agencies have arrived the state for equitable and effective distribution of the materials. Besides, the programme has been extended to public-private-participation.

THE GUARDIAN TUESDAY 16TH September, 2008.

(From Abiodun Fagbemi, Ilorin)

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