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Nigerian Crisis WHO Situation Report | Issue #14, 12 - 18 November 2016
- WHO has delivered one Interagency Emergency Health Kit (IEHK) to Premiere Urgence Internationale (INGO) who will start their activities at the Primary Health Centre in Bolori II (estimated catchment population is 108,915, including IDPs). This donated kit contains essential medicines and medical supplies to treat 10,000 people for three months and also includes malaria module. So far nine IEHKs and one diarrheal disease kits have been distributed.
- Children under the age of five are at highest risk of malaria morbidity with up to seven-disease episode per year and of malaria mortality. Malaria mortality is exceedingly high in the presence of concomitant severe acute malnutrition (SAM) which is prevalent at around 20%. The combination of malaria morbidity with SAM is reported to be able to reach case fatality rates of up to 50% as compared with 3% for uncomplicated malaria.
- The Borno State Ministry of Health and partners are conducting a reactive vaccination campaigns targeting 18 locations, mainly IDP camps. So far, 35,742 children have been vaccinated in six camps. This campaign however is inadequate to interrupt the transmission of measles across the state, as it does not involve the host communities nor other settlements and IDP camps where measles cases have also been reported. The Borno State Ministry of Health is expanding the present campaign to include all accessible estimated 2.3 million children aged 6 months ¡V 15 years in the state without prejudice to the national measles campaign. This expanded campaign will take place from 27 ¡V 30 November 2016.
