With Nigeria now accounting for around 27 per cent of malaria cases in Africa, experts believe poor quality control is responsible for the increase. Malaria Nigeria Africa
As Nigeria continues to record the highest burden of malaria prevalence in Africa, experts have raised concern over poor quality control as factor responsible.
He said lack of political will and policies to regulate the influx of these antimalarial commodities by the government will continue to put the country in grave danger, as expired, low dosage and poor quality medicines flood the market. He said in order to ensure high quality antimalarial medicines in Nigeria, the government should work with the local pharmaceutical industry in producing its own drug, as studies have shown that antimalarial medicinal plants are grown in the country, waiting for their efficacy to be studied.
Also speaking at the event, the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, said despite the 2015 Nigeria Malaria Indicator Survey, which revealed a decline in the disease prevalence, malaria has remained a major public health challenge in the country as it accounts for more than one in 10 deaths.
In his address, the Director General, NIMR, Prof. Babatunde Salako, who was represented by the Director of Resaerch, Dr. Stella Smith said the World Malaria Report 2018, which estimated huge number of malaria cases recorded in 2017, with 10 African countries having the highest disease burden reveals insufficient levels of access to and uptake of lifesaving anti-malaria commodities and interventions.
He said poor power supply deters people in community from using the treated mosquito nets, which emits heat as well as inadequate infrastructure and drainage systems to discourage the breeding of mosquitoes.
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