Coordinating minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate while inaugurating the advisory board and ministerial taskforce, explained that malaria poses a significant burden on Nigeria in terms of mortality, morbidity, lost work hours, out-of-pocket expenses, and government investments in treatments and interventions.e
He emphasised that despite being preventable and treatable, malaria continues to be a major challenge for the country.
“Therefore, we need a paradigm shift from the standard approach to a more proactive and result-oriented method of defeating this disease.
