The committee said it would carry out our oversight functions to ascertain the role of primary health care in the Roll Back Malaria Programme.
and Malaria Control has called for tough action against the prevalence of fake malaria drugs to curb the high rate of mortality due to malaria.
Mr Ogah stated that the federal government must declare a state of emergency on the disease because Nigeria still accounts for the highest number of malaria-related deaths worldwide. “Nigeria is a country in need of protection from malaria. Its death toll from the disease makes up nearly a third of the world’s 619,000 malaria deaths a year.”
“The committee is not unmindful of the challenges being faced by Nigerians in the fight against these ailments, especially in the fight against the control of Malaria in the country, which appears to defile solutions.”
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