Nigeria loses 300,000 children to diarrhea annually

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Nigeria (Abuja) Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, Dr. Precious Gbeneol, Thursday, said despite the intervention efforts of government to reverse the undesirable tide of diseases such as malaria and diarrhea, about 300,000 Nigeria children still die of the diseases annually.
She spoke at the flag of ceremony of the Community Health Improvement Programme, CHIP, which was aimed at improving maternal, new-born and child health especially in the area of malaria control and diarrhea in Abuja.
She said, “a recent report by UNICEF and World Health Organidation identified diarrhea diseases as a leading killer among children rated only second to malaria and accounting for an estimated 1.5 million childhood deaths annually especially in sub-Saharan Africa with about 300,000 of such mortality attributable to Nigeria despite intervention efforts.”
“In sub-Saharan Africa, the scourge of infectious diseases accounts for about 90 persent of the global disease burden while an estimated N132 billion is lost globally to malaria every year as cost of treatment and loss of manpower hours.”
“The aim of the collaboration is to stem and reverse the undesirable tide of disease burden hence the MDG office funding of this intervention programme targeted at the grassroots known as Community Health Improvement Project.”
“In the course of implementation of this project over twelve months, existing health facilities will be used at the community level and personnel trained in about 15 sites spread across four selected area councils of the FCT namely AMAC (Abuja Municipal Area Council), Kuje, Bwari and Gwagwalada,” she said.
She noted that the project will be implemented right in the communities and will be accessible by all at no cost, adding that apart from the intervention to attain speedy decline in morbidity and mortality attributable to these killer diseases, the project would also enable high level skill transfer to healthcare workers at the grassroots so as to impact on healthcare delivery even beyond its lifespan.


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