The World Health Organisation has expressed it's readiness to work with development partners to rebuild destroyed health facilities in the Northeastern Nigeria.
Speaking at a press conference in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, said it is now time to scale up the intervention in Borno State and rest of the North East affected by Boko Haram crisis.
She said the global health organisation in collaboration with other international humanitarian agencies have worked tremendously to combat outbreak of diseases in the crisis region.
Moeti, who was in Maiduguri on Saturday to flag off the integrated polio and malaria campaign, said WHO has been supporting the treatment of malaria, which remains the major child killer disease, even before the crisis of the North East.
According to her, "We have been supporting the development of malaria policies and plans in defining the intervention to be put in place. Providing technical advices at the federal level and at the state as well.
"We have supported the overall health services in this emergency and to ensure that people have access to health care, we have mobilized 130 health team to be deployed here to assist the state government in the capacity to provide health services."
She however said as the crisis is running to a close there is urgent need to change the narrative and ensure the rehabilitation of destroyed health facilities.
She said WHO will lead in advocating for the rebuilding of destroyed health facilities, working in conjunction with some international partners.
Moeti said: "As the crisis is normalizing, we expect development partners to take over and build on what has been achieved during emergency and as people go back home to ensure that infrastructure destroyed are rebuilt, and with state government ensure that primary health care are re-established."
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