• Home
  • Anti-Corruption
  • Fact-Check
  • Economy
  • National
  • Security
  • Features
  • State
  • Event
  • E-Book
Search
  • Home
  • About
  • Adverts
  • Contact
Sign in
Welcome! Log into your account
Forgot your password? Get help
Password recovery
Recover your password
A password will be e-mailed to you.
PRNIGERIA PRNigeria News
PRNIGERIA PRNIGERIA
  • Home
  • Anti-Corruption
  • Fact-Check
  • Economy
  • National
  • Security
  • Features
  • State
  • Event
  • E-Book
Home Government Government raises awareness to prevent Noma disease
  • Government

Government raises awareness to prevent Noma disease

By
Enefaa Bob-manuel
-
November 19, 2019
Health Minister, Dr Osagie Ehanire

Government raises awareness to prevent Noma disease

The Federal government has joined the global community to commemorate the National NOMA day 2019 in Abuja.

The purpose of the event with theme: Timely Recognition Averts Deformity, sub-theme: Raise Awareness to Prevent Noma, is to scale up awareness of the disease towards preventing the disease in the country.

In his keynote address, the Minister of Health, Dr E. Osagie Ehanire, said that Noma disease can be reduced and even prevented, first by promoting national awareness of the disease and improving nutrition including promoting exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months of a child’s life.

He added that education on prenatal care, personal hygiene, timely immunization against common childhood diseases, improving environmental sanitation and poverty reduction are very key while stressing that detecting Noma early and treating it can halt and largely reverse the devastating impacts of the disease.

While reiterating on the need to ensure that immunization programmes reach all segments of the population, the Minister charged participants drawn from over ten countries from the African region to do their best to develop best practices in preventing, controlling and managing Noma disease.

On the part of Nigeria, Ehanire disclosed that Nigeria has established the National NOMA Control program in collaboration with the WHO which aims to boost awareness of NOMA, its prevention and care.

Read Also:

  • Pantami Foundation Graduates 250 Gombe Youths in Tech, Entrepreneurship
  • Tinubu Orders NAHCON to Reduce 2026 Hajj Fares
  • Security Operatives Nab Influencers Over Defamatory Campaign Against Senator Shehu Buba

He also informed that the Health Ministry has embarked on a number of national trainings, step down trainings and sensitization activities in high burden States such as: Kebbi, Sokoto, Jigawa and Akwa Ibom, in collaboration with the National Orientation Agency and Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, to increase surveillance, case finding and prompt disease reporting.

 Ehanire further announced that the Federal Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and other stakeholders has developed the National NOMA policy document and the triennial NOMA control action plan [2019-2021] which was approved in the National council on Health in August 2019.

 Earlier, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mr. Abdulaziz M. Abdullahi, charged participants to commit to finding workable ways to control and possibly kick out the gory disease in the sub region, ensuring that the Ministry would consider the outcome of the meeting for implementation with relevant partners.

Also speaking, the WHO, officer-in-charge Nigeria, Dr. Clement Peter, said ‘’NOMA has disappeared in the developed world but 140,000 still suffer from Noma every year due to poverty and malnutrition in the African Region. He however reiterated the commitment of WHO to partner with Nigerian Government to ensure that Noma is a disease of the past.

NOMA is an acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals; often seen in undernourished children.

Enefaa Bob-Manuel

Head [Media and Public Relations]

VISIT OUR OTHER WEBSITES
PRNigeria.com EconomicConfidential.com PRNigeria.com/Hausa/
EmergencyDigest.com PoliticsDigest.ng TechDigest.ng
HealthDigest.ng SpokesPersonsdigest.com TeensDigest.ng
ArewaAgenda.com Hausa.ArewaAgenda.com YAShuaib.com
  • TAGS
  • Awareness
  • Government
  • NOMA Disease
  • WHO
Previous articlePR is Key to SDGs’ Goals- Communication Expert
Next articleDasuki Never Wished to be Kept in DSS Custody … Lawyer Debunks DSS Claim
Enefaa Bob-manuel
Enefaa Bob-manuel
Xing

RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR

Pantami Foundation Graduates 250 Gombe Youths in Tech, Entrepreneurship

Tinubu Orders NAHCON to Reduce 2026 Hajj Fares

Security Operatives Nab Influencers Over Defamatory Campaign Against Senator Shehu Buba

Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani

Uba Sani Releases ₦2.3bn for Retirees and Families of Deceased Workers

Hajj Exercise Around Ka'abah

Group Urges CBN to Scrap 2% Service Charge on Hajj Fare to Reduce Pilgrimage Cost

Kano Gov’t Investigates Alleged Diversion of N4bn Dala Inland Dry Port Funds

ACF

ACF Warns of Alleged Plot to Cripple Dangote Refinery, Urges FG Intervention

S/Arabia-Trained Graduates to Begin Forum on Sustainable Development

Christian Genocide and the Conspiracy against Nigeria By Femi Fani-Kayode

Inspector-General of Police Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun

STEP-BY-STEP: How to Apply for New Digital Tinted Glass Permit as Police Begin Enforcement

DG NITDA Mallam Inuwa Kashifu and ICPC Chairman Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu

NITDA, ICPC Form Joint Task Force to Combat Corruption in Government IT Projects

Kano State on Display and NIPR’s Verdict on Progress

Recent Posts

  • Pantami Foundation Graduates 250 Gombe Youths in Tech, Entrepreneurship
  • Tinubu Orders NAHCON to Reduce 2026 Hajj Fares
  • Security Operatives Nab Influencers Over Defamatory Campaign Against Senator Shehu Buba
  • Army Dislodges Bandits in Taraba Forests Under Operation Lafiya Nakowa
  • How Irabor’s Book Launch Became National Security Summit as Obasanjo, Jonathan, Kukah, Sultan Spoke on Boko Haram
  • Home
  • About
  • Adverts
  • Contact
© 2020 PRNigeria. All Rights Reserved.
Latest News
Pantami Foundation Graduates 250 Gombe Youths in Tech, EntrepreneurshipTinubu Orders NAHCON to Reduce 2026 Hajj FaresSecurity Operatives Nab Influencers Over Defamatory Campaign Against Senator Shehu BubaArmy Dislodges Bandits in Taraba Forests Under Operation Lafiya NakowaHow Irabor's Book Launch Became National Security Summit as Obasanjo, Jonathan, Kukah, Sultan Spoke on Boko HaramNigerian Army Denies Losing Weapons to Bandits in Kwara OperationUba Sani Releases ₦2.3bn for Retirees and Families of Deceased WorkersGroup Urges CBN to Scrap 2% Service Charge on Hajj Fare to Reduce Pilgrimage CostNDLEA Dismantles Cocaine Cartels Behind UK Shipments, Arrests Suspects, Destroys 25,000kg Skunk NationwideKano Gov't Investigates Alleged Diversion of N4bn Dala Inland Dry Port FundsACF Warns of Alleged Plot to Cripple Dangote Refinery, Urges FG InterventionTroops Neutralise Terrorists, Repel Boko Haram Attack in BornoPHOTOS: Nigeria Customs, IMPR Bag Back-to-Back Golden World Award at IPRA 70th AnniversaryTroops Nab Terrorists’ Logistics, Drug Suppliers in BornoS/Arabia-Trained Graduates to Begin Forum on Sustainable Development
X whatsapp