Federal
Government is set to engage members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC,
as advocates against malaria infection.
Minister
of State for Environment, Ibrahim Jibril, revealed this at the launch of
National Mosquito Control and Liquid Waste Management Programme, in Abuja,
saying the recruited members will serve in the capacity of the defunct War
Against Indiscipline.
The
ministry of State for Environment may partner with State governments to also
register community health officers in Public Health Departments in all 774
local governments, to eliminate the breeding places of mosquitoes and reducing
incidences of malaria parasites across the country.
However,
he said the responsibility to maintain a healthy environment is collective and
participatory, as the ministry cannot solely perform the public sanitary
functions.
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