The Federal Government has directed all medical doctors and other health officials in the country to henceforth start using Artemisinin-based Combined Therapy (ACT) for the treatment of malaria disease in the country.
Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, gave the directive yesterday in Abuja during the ministerial press briefing on Affordable Medicines Facility (AMF) for malaria programme.
According to the minister, the spread of malaria had become so critical that everyone in the country was now involved.
He said: “It’s a disease everyone talks about and rightly so. In general hospitals, two-thirds of patients waiting to see the doctor are all about malaria. The launch of ACT will further accelerate our drive to ensure we have 50 per cent reduction in malaria. Thus, Nigeria had to develop another policy which includes the use of ACT.”
Chukwu also stated that the national policy does not recognize Chloroquine. For that reason, he said the government was doing all it could to phase it out.
http://nigerianbulletin.com/2010/11/30/fg-directs-doctors-on-act-for-malaria-treatment-thisday/
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