A professor of Community Medicine and Public Health in the Department of Community Health and Primary Care, College of Medicine, University of Lagos (UNILAG), Professor Adebayo Temitayo Onajole has lamented poor medical care given to malaria victims and pregnant women in the country.
The professor disclosed this while delivering the 15th Inaugural Lecture of the university with the topic, “Community Health – Key to Community Wealth” at the UNILAG Main Auditorium. According to Prof. Onajole, the rate at which children with suspected malaria and pregnant women receive proper care remains quite low adding that Nigeria has increased access to and use of malaria intervention.
He said, “Nigeria has increased access to and use of malaria interventions since 2009; an important gain given that 30 per cent of the world’s malaria cases and deaths occurred within the country’s borders in 2013. “Nonetheless, the rates at which high risk populations – children with suspected malaria and pregnant women receive proper care remains quite low. Indeed by 2013, no state recorded proper coverage of artemisinin- based combination therapies among children under five exceeding 20 per cent.”
While delivering the lecture, he noted that caregivers of young children especially in rural communities have poor knowledge of malaria. “Those in urban areas have better health seeking behaviour than those in rural areas and there is the need for urgent interventions to promote appropriate treatments of malaria,” he said.
Prof. Onajole also gave parents’ objection, disagreement or concerns about immunisation safety, long distance walking and long waiting time at the health facility as the most common reasons for partial immunisation and incomplete vaccination. He added that the ultimate goal of the health system is the attainment of better health care services for all.
By: Chidiebere Ejike
New Telegraph News
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