RSG To Review Public Health Laws

The Rivers sTate Commissioner for Health, Dr Sampson Parker, has said that public health laws in the state will be reviewed for effective compliance to the state public health policies.

Dr Parker stated this during the flagg-off ceremony of Nigerian Interfaith Action Association (NIFAA), an interface malaria control booster project in Port Harcourt, recently.

The commissioner, who was represented by the Director, Public Health, Rivers State Ministry of Health, Dr Akuro Okujago, said the ministry attached much importance to malaria control, and commended NIFAA for the malaria control project.

He said, the Ministry of Health would partner the interface project to rid the state of mosquitoes, and emphasizes the use of mosquitoes nets.

Earlier in her opening remarks, the national co-ordinator of National Malaria Control Programme, Dr Nnenna Ezeigwe said malaria remained one of the most devastating sicknesses of the age, and stressed that the fight against the scourge of malaria should be collective.

Ezeigwe, who was represented by Comfort Uboh, commended the interface, and noted that it was a good platform to fight malaria.

Also speaking, Executive Director of NIFAA, Bishop Sunday Onuaha, said NIFAFF was a common platform to work towards the total eradication of malaria in our society.

He called for collaborative efforts towards achieving the objectives.

Bishop Onuoha also explained that NIFAA was multi-sectoral and as such required the import of all, irrespective of religious or ethnic affiliation to combat malaria, which he described as a deadly monster.

Taneh Beemene