AS part of the programme to mark the 2017 World Malaria Day, the Delta State Government has said that it will continue to support efforts to reduce malaria burden in the state as part of the administration’s SMART Agenda.
This was stated by the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Nicholas Azinge, represented by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr. Minnie Oseji, in a broadcast yesterday in Asaba.
He noted that the state has been making positive efforts at mitigating the impact of the disease on the populace through intervention packages agreed upon in the Abuja Declaration and called on all Deltans to join hands to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with malaria.
He disclosed that April annually was a day of unified commemoration of the global effort to provide control and End of Malaria around the World, adding that World Malaria Day represented a chance for all to make a difference in government, company, charity organisation or among individuals.
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