No fewer than five hundred thousand children from Katsina state have been saved from the scourge of malaria by Bill and Melinda Gates foundation.
The foundation achieved this laudable feat of malaria prevention in the state through Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) Programme.
Katsina state Director of Malaria and Sickle Cell disease Control, Dr Shamsudeen Yahaya disclosed this yesterday, during the end of project dissemination of SMC in the state.
Yahaya said prior to the intervention of the Gates Foundation, the incidence of malaria in the state was alarming “as there was high burden of the disease leading to high morbidity and mortality”.
He said the SMC programme which was implemented in four council areas of Baure, Mashi, Dutsi and Maiadua in the state, had tremendously reduced deaths resulting from malaria among children.
He however appealed for sustainability of the project so as to reduce the unacceptable morbidity and mortality associated with malaria.
Our correspondent reports that the SMC was adopted to combat malaria in the Sahelian states of Nigeria where about 11 million children are believed to be at risk of malaria.
By: Muazu Elazeh
Leadership News
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