Get Guardian on GoogleTo boost the fight against malaria affecting children aged five and under, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has donated drugs for the Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) worth N1.2b.
Speaking to journalists, yesterday, in Yola, the Executive Chairman of Adamawa State Primary Health Care Development Agency (APHCDA), Dr. Sulaiman Saidu, said that SMC, which is ongoing in the state is an intermittent administration of full treatment of anti-malaria medicine during the malaria season to prevent malaria illness.
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He pointed out that the objective is to maintain therapeutic drug that are concentrated in the blood throughout the period of greatest malaria risk.
Saidu said that the agency has deployed 700 teams to field to carry out different health activities in order to reduce the health risk that the communities are facing due to the flooding, which affected over 11 local councils and multiple communities in the state.
