By Chioma Umeha
Kano – Kano state government has vowed to
completely eradicate malaria disease in the state, saying it is determined to
harness both human and material resources in a bid to eliminate the scourge
completely.
This pledge had come when many people were
suffering from the malaria endemic in the state, the situation that caused
congestion at hospitals across the 44 Local Governments Areas of the state.
This was made known by the state Commissioner of
Health, Dr. Kabir Ibrahim Getso, at a two-day state level training on overview
of malaria control module in the state yesterday.
He charged the participants to put into practice
what they learnt during the training in their various duty post, adding that
government was very much committed in the area of health care services and the
indices of Malaria in particular.
He commended Centre for Disease Control (CDC) for
organising the training to roll back malaria selecting officers from twenty
local government areas in the state, describing the training as as timely
considering the prevalence of the disease in the commercial state.
