Malaria is a disease caused by mosquito parasite which has caused so many deaths to both pregnant women and the babies. malaria during pregnancies is a recognized risk factor for low birth weight and probably decreases the survival of offspring, particularly during their first month of life. on the other hand, acquired maternal immunity may protect infants against malaria infection or disease.
The disease kills mothers while giving birth to a child and the child will also follow the mother to the grave. of a teenager who contacts HIV simply because she is ignorant about how it is spread; of a teacher who misses an entire school year because of a mosquito bite and lack of agony spaining medicine.
One in five Nigerian Children dies before the age of five, approximately 1,000,000 total each year. A child dies of malaria in Africa every 29 seconds. In Nigeria, 80% of the population is exposed to the disease and 60 million individuals experience a malaria attack at least twice in a year. The Nigerian economy loses an estimated 1 billion each year due to malaria related absenteeism. and treatment cost.
though malaria is both easily preventable and treatable, 300,000 Nigerian children and 7,000 mothers die annually from the disease. malaria accounts for 25% of Nigeria's staggering high infant mortality rate. 30% of its child mortality rate (children less than 5 years of age) and 11% of its maternal mortality rate.
though malaria accounts for 63% of all reported disease in Nigeria health facilities less than 1% of the total population uses insecticide-treated bed net.
Inadequate health care infrastructure and low inadequate healthcare expenditure are the major thing that is affecting Nigerians in general especially Anambra State in particular suffers from woefully inadequate healthcare infrastructure. according to a 2007 report by the World Heath Organization (WHO) Nigeria's health system ranks 187 out of 190 countries.
Our privately funded hospitals is needed to help compensate for pitifully low federal healthcare expenditure. per capita public spending for health in Nigeria is less than $5 and is as low as $2.
malaria is considered one of the major causes of maternal and infant mortality worldwide hence the huge investment of MDGs in the Nigeria's malaria control programme.
Midwifery services scheme - The Federal Government of Nigeria under the 2009 Federal Appropriation Act established the midwives service scheme of 2,488 midwives were deployed to 652 primary health care facilities in rural areas to ensure increased coverage of skilled attendance at births at all times so as to facilitate reduction in maternal, newborn and child morbidity and mortality. The Polio eradication campaign is ongoing with significant reduction of polio detected cases from 286 in 2009 to only 3 in 2010.
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