WHO SETS TO TREAT OVER 1.4M CHILDREN IN ADAMAWA STATE
From Emmanuel Samuel, Yola
The World Health Organization WHO, has completed arrangement to give free treatment to over One Million Four Hundred Thousand Children in Adamawa State in 2022.
Benjamin Nashion who is the Malaria Programme Manager, dropped the hint
during a one day sensitization workshop for media practitioners in Yola, the Adamawa State Capital.
He explained that the program would be implemented through a World Health Organization (WHO) intervention programme called Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC).
Benjamin disclosed that the exercise for 2022 will kickstart on Thursday 2nd June, 2022 and would end in October this year, adding that the rationale for scheduling the program during the rainy season was because it is the time cases of malaria are prevalent.
Nashion urged the media practitioners to help in sensitizing the general public of the program for optimal result.
Also speaking, the National Consultant, Malaria in Emergency Northeast WHO office, Dr. Ini Abasi Nglass, said, the exercise had recorded tremendous success in 2021.
She however noted that the exercise encountered some pockets of challenges like late arrival of materials to the end users and lack of clear understanding of the process by some health personnel.
She however, noted that in order to avoid similar challenges, materials have been deployed early this year just as the health personnel get more training.
DR. Ini Abasi noted that the event would last for four days while on the fifth day, a mop up exercise would be conducted to attend to those children that were not attended to during the exercise.
Nglass expressed optimism that this year’s exercise would attain 100 percent success as all the children targeted would be duly covered.
