The Recent Nigerian National Demographic
Survey (NDHS) presented by Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health
(PACFaH) has revealed that in Kano state, for every 1000 live-births, 185 of
them will die before they mark the age of 5 in Kano State, Nigeria.
This is translated to one in every five
children is dying before attaining the age of 5.
Presenting the fact sheet during an advocacy
visit on the treatment of childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea, to the Managing
Director Kano state Drugs and Medical Consumables supply Agency (DMCSA),programme director PACFaH, Pharmacist Remi Adeseun said pneumonia and diarrhoea
accounts for 14% and 15% of the foregoing under-five mortality rate
respectively, adding that advocacy has become necessary as Kano state has the
highest burden of childhood pneumonia in North-Western region of the country.
Mr. Adeseun stressed that the under-five
mortality rate in the state is alarming going by the report, which states that
the annual live-birth figure in Kano state is 575,000; of which 101,000 die
before their 5th birthday, due to child killer diseases which according to the
report are all preventable diseases.
He therefore called on the state government
to domesticate the National Strategic Plan of Action for Nutrition (NSPAN) as a
measure of saving the lives of these children.
In his address, the MD DMCSA, Pharmacist
Magaji Dahiru Zarewa stated that, Kano state has already adopted the
Amoxicillin dispensable tablet and the agency has been working with a lot of
grassroots Civil Society Organisations to ensure the success of reduction in
under-five mortality rate in the state.
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