Represented by Dr Ifeyinwa Ugwunweze, the Local Government Health Secretary, Enugu-East LGA, the commissioner said that the state was pursuing it total malaria elimination with the overwhelming awareness needed.
According to him, our health-loving Governor, His Excellency, Dr Peter Ndubuisi Mbah, is optimist that Enugu State can achieve zero malaria prevalence within few years.
“At this stage, we, both stakeholders, partners and everybody concerned to stop the menace of malaria, are taking the message of free testing and treatment of malaria to the hinterlands, to our rural people.
“For the rural people to know that it is their right to demand and access free testing and treatment of malaria in the Primary Healthcare Centres close to their homes.
“We are sending massages of other necessary things to be done to eliminate malaria by good environmental cleanliness and always sleeping under insecticide treated nets, which some have already,” he said.
