By Fatima Mohammed-Lawal
Prof. Olatunji Kolawole of the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Ilorin, says Nigerians spend over N300 billion annually on malaria treatment.
Kolawole disclosed this in his paper presentation at the 190th Inaugural Lecture of the university entitled: “Transcending the Viral World: a Tale of Mimicry, Knockdown and Knockout”.
He stated that Nigeria recorded over one million malaria cases i per year and a treatment cost of about N3,000 per treatment.
The don asserted that Nigeria currently accounted for 25 per cent of malaria cases worldwide according to World Health Organisation (WHO) report of 2017.
“The high level of malaria resistant drugs couples with fewer interventions at the complete eradication of the malaria parasites leaves us in an unending cycle of malaria prevalence, drug resistance and malaria related deaths,” he said.
He observed that inspite of the huge amount of money expended by Nigerians in…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
