World Water Day: PACFaH Urges FG To Tackle Water Borne Diseases

As the world marks the World Water Day, Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health (PACFaH) has urged the federal government and relevant stakeholders to help tackle water borne disease.
Speaking on the theme of the conference: “Why Waste Water? Clean Water Prevents Diarrhoea and Saves Lives” the programme director operations, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Pharmacist Ayuba Ibrahim said that he was optimistic that the implementation of the advocacy requests will drastically reduce the unfavourable childhood mortality from water-borne diseases such as diarrhea in the country.
Pharmacist Ibrahim maintained that by mainstreaming diarrhoea in national and state health planning, preventable and treatable child deaths from diarrhoea can be achieved in Nigeria.
The national coordinator, Association for the Advancement of Family Planning (AAFP) Mrs. Chinwe Onumonu stressed the need to increase the uptake of family planning commodities and services.