NIGERIA joins the rest of the world to mark the World Malaria Day today, underscored by its recent approval of the R21/Matrix malaria vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India.
Given this reality, Nigeria should take the lead in innovative research and preventive measures to combat the avoidable but curable disease. But lack of commitment to seeing through eradication and control programmes, corruption, and sheer incompetence, coupled with the shambolic health care delivery system, have seen malaria on the march.
Nigeria’s control efforts are defeated by the country’s leadership failure; several programmes have crashed, sabotaged by corruption, gross inefficiency and government bureaucracy. From the Roll Back Malaria, National Malaria Elimination Programme, National Malaria Control Programme, National Malaria Strategic Plan to the new Nigeria End Malaria Council, the strategies, and interventions showcase the country’s perennial “one step forward and two steps backwards” syndrome.
There should be a multifaceted and multi-layered eradication and control approach. LGs should revive and revitalise sanitary inspections, desilt and clean gutters, weed bushes, prevent water stagnancy, and embark on rigorous campaigns for vector control and spraying of pesticides.
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