Only Clean Environment Can Rid Nigeria of Malaria- Minister

Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abdullahi says the best measure to rid our environment of Malaria was to maintain a clean environment.

He noted that the federal government was already in partnerships with local and international organisations to build a consensus that would evolve a sustainable technology to fight the disease in Nigeria.

According to him, Nigeria has the World’s highest malaria burden with annual reported cases of 51 million and 207,000 deaths representing nearly 30% of the total malaria burden in Africa.

The press conference was jointly presented by the Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abdullahi and the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire who maintained that the vaccine for children does not work in isolation but in combination with other measures.

The Minister noted that the trial countries for the malaria vaccines for children are considered priority countries in the distribution but when the high burden countries are noted Nigeria would be listed to benefit from the children vaccines and that would go round the country.