Noma: No child should die from preventable disease - MSF charges govt, stakeholders to improve response

Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF, besides known arsenic Doctors Without Borders, has urged the Nigerian authorities to fortify community-based surveillance, amended aboriginal detection and summation concern successful noma prevention and attraction to trim deaths and disabilities among children.

The telephone was made by Ahmed Aldikhari, Country Representative of MSF Nigeria’s Intersectional Country Office, successful a goodwill connection astatine the 2026 National Noma Day commemoration successful Abuja.

Declaring that nary kid should dice from a preventable ailment, Aldikhari stressed the value of aboriginal identification, which helium said could prevention lives and forestall devastating facial disfigurement, peculiarly among children.

Aldikhari commended the Federal Government, the Ministry of Health, the Nigeria Association of Noma Intervention, NANI, and different stakeholders for their efforts to fortify Nigeria’s effect to the disease.

He peculiarly welcomed advancement towards integrating noma into superior healthcare guidelines and its inclusion successful the Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System, SORMAS, describing the developments arsenic important steps towards improving illness identification, reporting and referral.

The MSF typical besides congratulated the Ministry of Health connected the motorboat of the National Oral Health Strategic Plan 2026–2031, saying it provides an accidental to marque noma prevention and attraction an integral portion of Nigeria’s broader healthcare priorities.

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