Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has described as salutary the gesture by Catholic Relief Services to distribute about three million Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLIN) under the National Malaria Elimination Project.
Akeredolu, who lamented the unnecessary lives being lost to malaria with its high rate of mortality in Nigeria said lives lost due to malaria, particularly infants, could have been prevented with more programmes like the National Malaria Elimination Project.
”We can refer to malaria as simple, but the records of death prove otherwise, it shows malaria has become a big scourge. A number of times, we concentrate more on other diseases, hence malaria gets pronounced. The malaria project is worthy of our continued indebtedness,” he said.
Akeredolu, who used the opportunity of the visit of the Country Representative of Catholic Relief…
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