Anambra State Commissioner for Health, Dr Afam Obidike says the state is second lowest in Nigeria with Incidences of malaria.
Dr. Obidike who disclosed this while briefing the press in his office in Awka maintained that Anambra is second lowest with five percent prevalence rate after Lagos which is the lowest with three percent, adding that the state is working tirelessly to be the lowest with malaria incidence in Nigeria.
Dr. Obidike noted that under five deaths attributed to malaria has also reduced from three-point six percent in 2022 to zero point nine-six percent in 2023, according to the District Health Information System report.
He further explained that since Governor Chukwuma Soludo approved free antenatal and free delivery for pregnant women in the state last year, they have had over six thousand deliveries with only one death and that they also include free albendazole among the drugs they give to the women.
On what the Soludo administration has done in the area of primary healthcare, the Commissioner added that the government is building at least one fully equipped and functional primary healthcare centre in all the three hundred and twenty-six electoral wards in Anambra, with solar powered lights in all of them.
Dr. Obidike pointed out that soon, the wife of the Governor, Mrs. Nonye Soludo will inaugurate a human papilloma virus drug for the prevention of cervical cancer, all geared towards having a state with a sound healthcare system.
The Health Commissioner equally made it clear that the Soludo administration also wants to build and design a better Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital that will be efficient both in infrastructure and service delivery.
Dr. Obidike revealed that Governor Soludo’s government plans to build a very smart healthcare system that Ndi Anambra will be proud of and that will compete favourably with healthcare systems in developed countries of the world.
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